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THE 

BOOK  OF  THOUGHT, 

OR, 

PARENTS  AND  TEACHER'S  HAND  BOOK; 

DESIGNED   FOR  THK    USE   OF 

SCHOOLS  &  PRIVATE  THIMERS-FOR  THE  USE  OF  THE  MILLION: 


BEINQ   A  COLLECTION   OF  THK 


HAPPIEST  THOUGHTS  OF  HAPPIEST  THINKERS, 
IN  THEIR   HAPPIEST  MOMENTS, 


Laconically       Expressed, 


EDITED    BY 

W.  SMITH  MORRELL  A\D  JOHIV  SMITHER. 


CINCINNATI: 
APPLEGATE    &    CO.,    43    MAIN     STREET. 

1858. 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  fonirress,  in  the  year  Eighteen  Hundred  and 
Fifty-oight,  by 

W.  SMITH  MORRELL  asd  JOHX  SMITHER, 

In  the  Clerk'd  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  United  States,  for  the 
District  of  Indiana. 


PREFACE 


Towering  minds  have  their  happy  moments  in 
which  they  put  forth  extra  efforts.  This  book,  being 
a  collection  of  these  rare  thoughts,  forms  a  cabinet 
of  intellectual,  moral,  and  religious  gems ;  which  if 
thoroughly  studied  can  not  fail  to  prove  a  valuable 
auxiliary  to  the  cause  of  intelligence  and  virtue. 

The  virtues  are  not  distinctly  and  sufficiently  in- 
sisted upon  in  the  family  and  school  training. 

Dr.  Locke  most  truly  remarks :  "  Under  whose 
care  soever  a  child  is  put  to  be  taught  during  the 
tender  and  flexible  years  of  his  life,  this  is  certain, 
it  should  be  one  who  thinks  Latin  and  languages  the 
least  part  of  education — one  who,  knowing  how  much 
virtue  and  a  well  tempered  soul  is  to  be  preferred  to 
any  sort  of  learning  or  language,  makes  it  his  chief 
business  to  form  the  minds  of  his  scholars,  and  give 
that  a  right  disposition,  which,  if  once  got,  though 
all  the  rest  should  be  neglected,  would,  in  due  time, 
produce  all  the  rest;  and  which,  if  it  be  not  got,  and 
settled  so  as  to  keep  out  ill  and  vicious  habits,  lan- 
guages and  sciences,  and  all  the  accomplishments 
of  education,  will  be  to  no  purpose,  but  to  make  the 
worse  or  more  dangerous  man." 

"  How  empty  learning,  and  how  vain  is  art, 
But  as  it  mends  the  life,  and  guides  the  heart." 


iy  PREFACE. 

Rev.  Tryon  Edwards  advises  heads  of  families, 
*'  always  to  have  a  book  at  hand  for  the  use  of  the 
family — a  hook  of  condensed  thought  and  striking 
anecdote,  of  sound  maxims  and  truthful  apothegms. 
It  will  impress  on  your  mind  a  thousand  valuable 
suggestions,  and  teach  your  children  a  thousand  les- 
sons of  truth,  and  duty.  Such  a  book  is  a  casket  of 
jewels  for  your  household.'^ 

The  authors  have  faithfully  labored  to  produce, 
and  now  offer  to  a  discriminating  public,  such  a 
book ;  which  they  design  to  be  used  as  a  school-book, 
as  well  as  a  parlor  companion. 

It  is  known  that  the  shortest  way  of  memorizing 
any  composition  is,  by  writing  it  repeatedly  and 
thoughtfully. 

The  Fikst  design  of  the  authors,  therefore,  is, 
that  the  expressions,  especially  the  single  lines  in 
the  fore  part  of  the  work,  be  used  as  copies  to  write. 

Secondly,  that  it  be  used  as  a  book  of  praxes  for 
parsing  in  the  grammar  class. 

Thirdly,  that  it  be  used  as  a  book  of  composition, 
some  specimens  of  which  are  given  at  the  end  of  the 
work. 

Fourthly,  another,  and  the  grand  design  is,  that 
it  be  used  as  a  book  of  reference  by  teacher,  parent, 
and  pupil. 

To  inculcate  in  the  least  time,  and  at  the  right 
time,  the  duties  of  life,  and  to  form  a  habit  of 
thought,  in  the  minds  of  all,  especially  youth,  aie 
the  great  leading  purposes,  and  sincere  wishes  of  the 
authors. 


TO  TEACHERS. 


"We  presume  that  teachers,  generally,  must  have 
felt  the  pressing  need  of  such  a  work  as  this ;  and  as 
the  writers  of  our  many  excellent  school-series,  have, 
for  the  most  part,  been  practical  teachers,  it  seems 
strange  that  they  have  not,  e'er  this  time,  given  us 
so  indispensable  a  work. 

The  parent  and  teacher  will  find,  on  a  thorough 
examination  of  the  contents  of  this  manual,  that  the 
expressions,  generally,  suggest  deathless  thoughts, 
calculated  to  shape  the  destiny  of  youth,  as  well  as 
to  change  the  habits  of  the  advanced  in  years.  The 
grouping  of  these  expressions  on  the  same  subject, 
and  thereby  bringing  them  to  bear  upon  the  same 
point,  is  calculated  to  fix  and  enforce  that  point  on 
the  mind  of  the  learner.  For  instance,  the  parent 
or  teacher  is  desirous  to  instruct  his  charge  in  rela- 
tion to  the  law  of  habit — "  that  upon  which  the  law- 
giver as  well  as  the  school-master  has,  in  all  ages  of 
the  world,  mainly  relied," — he  refers  to  the  subject, 
Custom — ffabit — Use,  where  he  reads  to  his  charge, 
what  many  of  the  best  thinkers  have  said,  in  a  few 
words,  in  reference  to  this  very  important  subject ; 
adding  his  own  remarks.  In  like  manner,  reference 
may  be  had  to  the  subjects  religion — education, 
learning,    ^c, — reading,  books,  libraries — drunken- 


Vi  TO   TEACHERS. 


ness — tobacco  —  truth — veracity — Sabbath — woman, 
mothers — youth,  and  the  many  other  important  ones 
found  in  this  book. 

In  order  to  give  the  expressions,  force  and  vreight 
in  the  mind  of  the  student,  as  a  general  thing,  they 
are  accredited  by  the  name  of  the  writer. 

In  addition  to  this  important  use  of  the  work,  the 
intelligent  teacher  will  readily  perceive  its  adapta- 
tion as  a  book  of  copies  to  write — especially  the  sin- 
gle line  expressions  in  the  fore  part — of  praxes  for 
parsing,  in  the  grammar  class,  and  subjects  for  com- 
positions for  the  more  advanced  student.  After  the 
systematically  subjectized  portion  of  the  work,  fol- 
lows a  chapter  of  promiscuously  arranged  subjects  ; 
next  comes  a  chapter  of  Clerical,  Religious,  Moral, 
and  Temperance  anecdotes,  promiscuously  an-anged ; 
and  lastly,  some  examples  of  the  use  of  the  expres- 
sions, as  subjects  of  compositions. 

In  the  production  of  this  little  manual,  it  is  the 
authors'  aim  to  render  the  arduous  labors  of  the 
teacher  more  efficient,  and  at  the  same  time,  greatly 
abridge  them. 

To  those  guardians  of  youth — those  staunch  props 
to  the  pillars  of  our  glorious  government — the  honor- 
deserving  teachers  of  America, — is  this  little  work 
respectfully  dedicated  by  the  authors. 


CONTENTS. 


Single  line  expressions,  atphabetl- 

c.iMy  arransred 9 

Single  line  expressions,  promisca- 

ousty  arranged 12 

Actions 1*^ 

Amhition IP 

Associates !!• 

Attention 20 

Avarice 21 

Benevolence,  Beneficence, 22 

Bible 23 

Bigotry 25 

C'.'nsure 20 

Character,  Reputation 27 

Charity 30 

Cheerfulness,  Sadness 32 

Contentment 33 

Cookery 35 

Covetousness 36 

Crednlity 37 

Cunning,  Prudence,  Discretion.. ..  38 

Curiosity.  39 

Custom,  Habit.  Use 40 

Death 45 

Debt 50 

Deceit 51 

Despiir 51 

D;et.  Dieting 53 

Di-«cii)Uue 55 

Discussion 57 

D'Kility 57 

Drunkenness,  Temperance,  Intem- 
perance   .57 

Early  rising 01 

Earnestness.  Perseverance 02 

Economy,  Profuseness 04 

Education,  Learning.  &c 65 

Envy 74 

Kternitv 77 

Evil 78 

Evil  Speaking 80 

Faith 81 

Fall  of  Nations 81 

Filial  Duty 82 

Foresight 83 

Foreiveness 84 

Frankness.  Candor 85 

Friends,  Friendship 80 

Future  State 89 

Gambling 89 


Generosity 

Gen  ius 91 

Gentleman 92 

God 93 

Good  and  Evil 95 

Good  Manners,  Civility,  tec f*0 

G  -ssiping !)9 

Gratitude.  Ingratitude 100 

Ilapplness 101 

History 103 

Home.' 104 

Home  Politeness 100 

Hojie 106 

Human  Progress,  Reform 110 

Humility 112 

Hypocrisy 112 

Imitation 113 

Immortality 114 

Infidelity IIG 

Integrity 117 

Jealousy 118 

Judirment 118 

Justice 119 

Kind  Words 120 

Labor,  Industry,  Idleness,  &c 121 

Liberty,  Freedom 127 

Life 128 

Love 132 

Luxury 134 

Lying 135 

Man 136 

Marriage 137 

Mind 139 

Misfortune 140 

Mob in 

Moderation ]  42 

Modesty 1 42 

Nature 143 

Niirht 115 

Novels 146 

Obedience  to  Parents,  &c 147 

Occupation .  E  m  ploy ment 1 49 

Opportunity 151 

Order,  Method 152 

Passions 153 

Patience 154 

Peace LV4 

Personal  Cleanliness 155 

Pleasure  and  Pain 156 

Praise ,.  136 


Vlll 


CONTENTS. 


Prayer '5 

Prejudice 159 

Precepts,  Examples 160 

Pride 161 

Procrastination 1^ 

Profaneness l"? 

Prosoerity,  Adversity 166 

Punctnnlity 16' 

Qnnlity.  Rank 163 

Quarrels 169 

Reaflinpr,  Rooks,  &c 169 

Reason.  Reasoning Ij;^'* 

Relision 1"-^ 

Repentance If*^ 

Reren<»e.  Foririveness 1^ 

Riches.  Gold.  Wealth 1^2 

Humor 1''" 

Seduction T'^ 

Se!f tf'^ 

Sincerity IW 

Sk»pticii>in 131 

Slander,  Detraction,  &c 191 

Slavery 136 

Small  things I^S 

Success-  ••• 1^ 

Suspicion 200 

Sympathy 211 

Sinndcr  and  ■Flattery ^f'2 

Talkin?,  Silence 202 

Ternper,  Good  and  Bid 204 

Temptation 205 

Theaters 200 

The  Sahbnth 208 

Tomb 209 

Theology 210 

Thinkers.  Thought 211 

Time  21^^ 

Tobacco 215 

Toneue 210 

Trial,  Affliction,  Sorrow 219 

Truth, Ye«acity 293 

Tsnrer 2?5 

Vanity... 226 

Virtue,  Vice 22fi 

War 229 

Wisdom 230 

Woman,  Mothers 232 

Youth Z?P 

Ze>l 212 

Promiscuous  Subjects 2 13  to  2P9 

Chapter  of  Anecdotes 289  to  315 

Anecdote  of  Rev.  Wm.  .Tay 2S9 

Settling  accounts 289 

What  will  become  of  you 9f=0 

Challenge  to  fijht 2P9 

He  knows  when  I  swear  at  him. ...  290 
Who  flu  heaven  and  hell 290 


The  Scoffer 290 

The  way  to  heaven  paved  with  good 

intentions 290 

An  opportune  rebuke 291 

Work  not   eat  not 291 

And  it  was  his  own  daughter 291 

Short  Creed 292 

Prodigal  son 292 

Rum  color 292 

Remedy  for  sore  eyes 293 

That  matter  is  settled 293 

Pluck  the  roses  and  eat  the  fruit...  294 
SniiJT  not  injurious  to  the  brain-  • ..  204 

Will  strear  will  steal 295 

Clarke's  question  to  workmen 295 

Zachariah  Fox 295 

P.arly  impressions  never  effaced. ...  296 

Beecher's  first  oath 996 

Cnbbett's  duel 206 

Attontionto  lives 297 

Qnnker  reply 297 

No  freeilom  with  the  name  of  my 

Mas'er 298 

Avaricious  reetor 998 

Roaring  of  the  British  Lion 208 

Accuspd  and  acquitted 299 

Cn^'vofessional 209 

Died  of  a  complication 209 

Put  it  where  your  other  irons  are...  299 

Quin  and  the  coxcomb 300 

No  bettor  than  Clav .300 

Out  of  his  Lordship's  way 300 

The  clenryman  and  the  jockey 300 

Preaching  on  the  times ?n 

Tlnpny  passage 301 

Wash'cton's  respect  for  his  mother  3!'2 

B-ilincrhroke ?(!2 

Contentment 303 

Giving  to  save ?03 

The  benevolent  Di-.  Wilsm 303 

H  e  tried  it  before  he  said  it 303 

Re^uires  two  fiols  to  fieht 304 

Remembering  the  nameof  Christ. ..  304 

How  far  to  a  ta vs^rn 304 

May  perish  by  the  sword 30.5 

Napoleon's  npinion  nf  Christ :?05 

Wesley's  charity 306 

Distiller  an'!  reformed  drunkard 307 

Discarded  Layer .307 

Not  my  will  but  thine 3ftS 

The  world  and  Bro  hers 308 

Tlaynes  to  the  scofftrs 309 

Whv  do  yon  plant  trees 309 

Wilberforce's  conversion 309 

Effect*  of  intemperance  on  national 

industry 311 

Compositions 315  to  324 


BOOK    OF    THOUGHT. 


SINGLE  LINE  EXPRESSIONS; 

Designed  as  Copies,  Praxies  for  Parsing  and  Subjects  for  Compositions. 


All  lessons  should  be  punctually  and  thoroughly  studied. 
Be  circumspect  in  all  your  walks  through  life. 
Civilization  is  the  result  of  the  right  kind  of  education. 
Do  to  others  as  you  would  wish  they  should  do  to  you. 
Every  man  is  miserable  in  just  proportion  to  his  vices. 
Forget  not.  your  duty  under  any  conceivable  circumstances. 
Good  order  must  be  maintained  in  families  and  schools. 
Hear  counsel    and  receive  kind,  good  instruction. 
Idleness  is  the  legitimate  mother  of  mischief. 
Justice  is  the  great  standing  policy  of  civil  society. 
Kindness  of  heart  will  commonly  be  appreciated. 
Labor  is  one  of  the  great  elements  of  civil  society. 
Man's  happiness  or  misery  is  in  his  own  hands. 
Never  utt«r  that  which  may  ofiFend  the  chastest  ear. 
Order,  neatness,  and  economy,  are  all  capital  virtues. 
Parents  are  honored  by  the  virtues  of  their  children. 
Quick  promisors  are  most  commonly  tardy  performers. 
Rudeness  of  manners  ever  disgusts  all  good  men. 
Strive  to  be  something  in  life,  and  you  will  be  something. 
The  bible  is  a  window  in  this  dark  prison  of  hope. 
Undirected  by  virtue,  knowledge  is  but  the  servant  of  vice. 
Virtue  ever  elevates  the  mind,  but  vice  ever  degrades  it. 
What  maintains  one  vice,  would  bring  up  two  children. 
Xenophon  was  famous  both  as  a  general  and  historian. 
Youth  is  the  morning  of  life — the  time  for  exertion. 
Zeal  in  the  promotion  of  a  good  cause,  will  ensure  success. 
(9) 


10  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


A  gentleman  makes  no  noise,  a  lady  is  always  serene. 
Beauty  very  soon  fades,  but  virtae  flourishes  forever. 
Coolness — absence  of  heat  and  haste,  indicate  fine  qualities. 
Duty,  as  well  as  interest,  requires  honesty  in  our  dealings. 
Every  hour  lost  in  youth,  is  a  chance  of  future  misfortune. 
From  disappointments  we  commonly  learn  to  be  prudent. 
Genuine  courage  has  its  origin  in  genuine  virtue. 
He  that  is  slow  to  wrath,  is  of  great  understanding. 
Ignorance  is  undoubtedly  a  great  highway  to  crime. 
Joy  and  sorrow  divide  the  world  equally  between  them. 
Knowledge  and  goodness  form  the  degrees  in  heaven. 
Life  and  death  are  both  within  the  power  of  the  tongue. 
Mind  grows  and  strengthens  only  by  its  own  action. 
No  thoroughly  occupied  man  was  ever  very  miserable. 
On  tlie  cultivation  of  women's  minds,  depends  man's  wisdom. 
Peevishness  always  disgusts  us,  pains  and  mortifies  us. 
Quench  not  good  desires ;  they  are  the  promptings  of  the  Spirit. 
Hather  diminish  than  magnify  other  persons'  faults. 
Sloth  makes  all  things  difficult,  but  industry,  all  easy. 
The  highest  joys  to  the  christian,  come  through  suffering. 
Upon  secrecy,  commonly  depends  the  success  of  designs. 
Vice,  sooner  or  later,  brings  much  real  unhappiness. 
We  should  read  books  that  inculcate  the  duties  of  life. 
Xerxes  was  the  father  of  Darius,  the  last  king  of  Persia. 
Youth  is  the  season  of  lively  hope,  enterprise  and  energy. 
Zealous  souls  without  meekness  are  like  ships  in  a  storm. 


A  mother's  influence  usually  makes  men  what  they  are. 
Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart,  for  they  shall  see  God. 
Content  has  a  very  kindly  influence  on  the  soul  of  man. 
Do  nothing  to-day  that  you  must  repent  of  in  future. 
Envy  and  anger  cause  great  pain,  and  shorten  human  life. 
Falsehood  is  a  very  base  and  a  very  loathsome  vice. 
Good  temper,  like  sunshine,  sheds  its  brightness  all  around. 
He  that  refuseth  instruction,  despiseth  his  own  soul. 
Idleness  is  the  legitimate  parent  of  most  of  the  vices. 
Joy  wholly  from  without,  is  false,  precarious,  and  short. 


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Keep  thy  tongue  from  Blander  and  thy  lips  from  guile. 
Little  sins  bring  in  their  train  many  sins  of  magnitude. 
Moderate  exercise  and  toil,  strengthen  and  consolidate  the  body. 
No  habitual  reader  of  novels,  can  love  to  read  the  Bible. 
One  of  the  sublimest  things  in  the  world  is  plain  truth. 
Prejudice  and  ignorance  always  go  hand  in  hand. 
Quietly  and  perseveringly  pursue  the  many  duties  of  life. 
Regard  your  good  name  as  the  richest  jewel  on  earth. 
Strict  adherence  to  truth  will  command  true  respect. 
Though  death  is  terrible,  still  it  will  come  to  all  of  us. 
Unite  with  your  industry,  system  and  good  economy. 
Virtue  commonly  secures  much  respect  and  happiness. 
"VVe  should  revenge  a  wrong  by  freely  forgiving  it. 
Xerxes  built  a  bridge  of  boats  across  the  Hellespont. 
You  should  never  suffer  your  energies  to  stagnate. 
Zeal  in  a  good  cause  will  merit  applause. 


All  great  distinguished  men  have  had  great  mothers. 

Books,  like  friends,  should  be  few  and  well  chosen. 

Content  makes  even  the  poor  richer  than  California  mines. 

Death  comes  suddenly  to  those  who  are  unprepared. 

Education  dissipates  the  many  evils  of  ignorance. 

Flattery  corrupts  both  the  giver  and  the  receiver. 

Grand  results  are  obtained  by  grand  efforts. 

He  who  lives  to  no  purpose,  lives  to  a  bad  purpose. 

If  you  live  a  useful  life,  you  will  live  happily. 

Judge  not,  lest  ye  be  judged  by  the  unerring  Judge. 

Kindnesses  and  smiles,  given  habitually,  win  the  heart. 

Little  minds  make  their  opinions  subordinate  to  their  interests. 

Most  men  make  policy  the  rule  of  their  lives. 

Nothing  is  utterly  impossible  to  persevering  industry. 

Of  all  our  infirmities,  vanity  is  the  dearest  to  us. 

Punctuality  is  the  heart  and  soul  of  all  business. 

Quarrels  would  be  short,  if  the  fault  was  only  on  one  side. 

Reason  and  virtue  alone  can  bestow  real  liberty. 

Self-praise  is  a  very  inadequate  recommendation. 

That  which  you  sow  to-day  you  will  sometime  reap. 


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Use  law  and  pliysic  only  in  cases  of  real  necessity. 
Virtue  is  the  all-sustaining  power  of  government. 
"We  should  dearly  love  life,  without  fearing  its  close. 
Xerxes  was  a  very  vain  and  very  boastful  man. 
Young  men  are  apt  to  think  themselves  wise  enough. 
"  Zion,"  is  used  figuratively  for  the  chui'ch  of  God. 


A  hopeless  person  is  one  who  deserts  himself. — Berkeley, 
Grace  is  to  the  boily  what  good  sense  is  to  the  mind. 
Simple  diet  is  best, — for  many  dishes  bring  many  diseases. 
Tobacco  is  a  curse  to  a  nation,  in  proportion  to  its  use. 
Worth  makes  the  man;  the  want  of  it  the  fellow. 
Modesty  of  manners,  once  lost,  is  forever  irrecoverable. 
The  cure  of  an  evil  tongue  must  be  done  at  the  heart. 
Never  reply  to  the  epithet  of  a  drunken  man  or  a  fool. 
Solomon  well  says,  "  anger  resteth  in  the  bosom  of  Fools." 
"Want  of  prudence  is  not  unfrequently  the  want  of  virtue. 
Good  books  are  our  best  companions  through  this  life. 
Earth's  vanities  pass  very  quickly  away  forever. 
Do  that  which  is  right,  and  speak  that  which  is  true. 
Every  condition  sets  easy  on  a  truly  wise  man. 
Abhor  that  which  is  evil,  and  cleave  to  that  which  is  good. 
Tobacco  is  a  great  generator  of  idle  habits  among  mankind. 
Civility  is  the  result  of  genuine  good  nature  and  good  sense 
Curiosity,  from  its  nature,  is  a  very  active  principle. 
Aim  at  excellence,  and  excellence  will  surely  be  attained. 
Idleness  is  the  sepulchre  of  a  living  man. 
A  propenstity  to  hope  and  joy  is  substantial  riches. 
Humility  is  the  true  foundation  of  virtue  and  content. 
All  intemperance  should  be  carefully  guarded  against. 
Virtue,  joined  to  knowledge,  confers  great  influence. 
Look  well  before  you  undertake  any  important  enterprise. 
It  is  much  easier  to  think  well  than  to  act  well. 
Happiness  is  lost,  when  ease  is  very  much  consulted. 
When  words  are  scarce  they  are  seldom  spent  in  vain. 
A  majority  of  mankind  prefer  custom  to  consistency. 
We  can  not  too  highly  value  a  true  and  tried  friend. 


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Idleness  is  the  great  bane  of  both  body  and  mind. 

We  should  guard  against  our  evil  passions  in  early  life. 

Practice  makes  that  easy,  which  at  first  seems  impossible. 

Profane  swearing  is  a  violent  breach  of  good  manners. 

Learn  to  consider  yourself  in  the  place  of  another. 

Never  speak  of  your  father  as  the  "  old  man." 

Calumnies  are  murder  in  the  first  degree. 

The  Slthiness  consequent  on  tobacco-using,  is  a  great  moral  evil. 

Rare  as  true  love  is,  true  friendship  is  still  rarer. 

To  be  of  use  is  the  great  object  of  human  existence. 

Riches  are  commonly  the  impediment  of  our  virtues. 

Agar  prayed  that  he  might  not  have  riches. 

Labor  is  the  substantial  interest  on  which  we  all  stand. 

As  you  desire  the  love  of  God  and  man,  beware  of  pride. 

Give  every  man  thine  ear,  but  few  thy  voice. — Shakspeare. 

The  love  of  money  is  the  root  of  all  evil. — Paul. 

The  morality  of  an  action  depends  upon  our  motive. 

Good  manners  are  the  small  coin  of  virtue. —  Women  of  England. 

The  half-learned  are  more  dangerous  than  the  simpleton. 

Innocence  does  not  always  shield  us  from  evil  reports. 

Constant  success  shows  us  but  one  side  of  the  world. 

Ho  is  not  great,  who  is  not  gi'eatly  good. — Shakspeare. 

The  conscience  of  well-doing,  is  an  ample  rewai'd. 

Home  should  be  more  attractive  than  any  other  place. 

No  man  envies  the  merit  of  another  who  has  enough  of  his  own. 

Personal  neatness  is  a  never-failing  sign  of  self-respect. 

Would  we  have  the  kindness  of  others,  we  must  endure  their  follies. 

We  should  never  speak  contemptuously  of  mankind. 

Never  abuse  one  who  was  once  your  bosom  friend. 

To  be  called  proud  is  a  misfortune,  to  be  proud  is  a  sin. 

There  is  a  time  to  think,  and  there  is  a  time  to  speak. 

Think  before  you  speak,  that  you  may  speak  wisely. 

We  have  nothing  to  enjoy  till  we  have  something  to  impart. 

The  tongue  is  an  unruly  evil,  full  of  deadly  poison. 

That  which  is  worth  doing,  is  worth  doing  well. 

Right  doing  is  wise  doing,  wrong  doing  is  but  folly. 

Nothing  noble  can  be  had  without  seriousness  and  sobriety. 

Prejudice  is  always  the  legitmate  offspring  of  ignorance. 


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Occupation  is  a  pressing  necessity  to  aU  young  persons. 

The  way  of  every  man  is  indicative  of  his  end. 

Defeat  is  a  school  in  which  truth  always  grows  strong. 

There  is  nothing  so  low  and  mean  as  selfishness. 

The  principal  virtues  of  woman  are  of  a  domestic  kind. 

To  be  proud  of  learning  is  the  greatest  ignorance. 

There  is  no  solid  happiness  without  strict  sobriety. 

We  may  mend  our  faults  more  easily  than  hide  them. 

Without  energy,  no  circumstances  will  make  a  man  a  man. 

The  pursuit  of  great  objects,  usually  forms  great  minds. 

We  should  constantly  beware  of  indulgence  in  any  excess. 

The  use  of  tobacco  unnerves  the  body,  and  stultifies  the  mind. 

Neither  precept  nor  discipline  is  so  forcible  as  example. 

Our  worst  enemies  are  the  evils  of  our  own  wicked  hearts. 

No  man  has  so  far  fallen  that  he  may  not  rise  by  effort. 

The  future  destiny  of  the  child  is  the  work  of  the  mother. 

The  origin  of  all  men  is  the  same,  and  virtue  is  the  only  nobility. 

The  heart  is  a  cup  which  is  always  empty  till  it  overflows. 

Procrastination  is,  verily,  the  great  arch  thief  of  time. 

Ever  open  your  mouth  and  your  purse  with  great  caution. 

No  excellence  can  be  secured  without  persevering  labor. 

The  virtues  of  mothers  are  commonly  visited  on  their  offspring. 

He  that  is  slow  to  wrath  is  of  great  understanding. — Solomon. 

Pleasure's  votaries  will  certainly  be  disappointed  at  last. 

All  censure  of  others  is  oblique  praise  of  one's  self. 

To  be  happy,  the  passions  must  be  cheerful  and  gay. 

This  little  life  has  duties  that  are  indeed  very  great. 

The  hours  of  a  wise  man  are  lengthened  by  his  ideas. 

A  thoughtful  mind  will  find  instruction  in  all  things. 

He  only  lives  who  is  not  a  reservoir,  but  a  fountain. 

All  difficulties  vanish  before  diligence  and  perseverance. 

Elucation  distinguishes  between  savage  and  civilized  life. 

Carefully  avoid  those  things  which  you  blame  in  others. 

Gratitude  is  homage  the  heart  renders  to  God  for  His  favors. 

Remember  that  time  is  money. — Dr.  Benjamin  Franklin. 

Good  manners  are  the  blossom  of  good  sense  and  good  feeling. 

A  smooth  sea  never  made  a  skillful  mariner. 

Malice  always  drinks  one  half  of  its  own  poison. 


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The  mother's  heart  is  the  child's  school-room. — Beecher. 

Tobacco  broods  like  an  incubus  over  the  chewer  and  smoker. 

Energy  will  do  any  thing  that  can  be  done  in  this  -world. 

Ever  be  governed  by  an  enlightened  conviction  of  truth  and  duty. 

A  good  character  is,  in  all  cases,  the  fruit  of  personal  exertion. 

He  is  the  most  empty  man  who  is  the  fullest  of  self. 

Ceremony  is  the  invention  of  wise  men  to  keep  fools  at  a  distance. 

The  foundation  of  knowledge  must  be  laid  by  reading. 

Flattery  is  a  kind  of  base  coin  to  which  vanity  gives  currency. 

A  flatterer  is  said  to  be  a  beast  which  always  bites  smiling. 

As  a  wolf  resembles  a  dog,  so  does  a  flatterer  resemble  a  friend. 

Nothing  is  so  great  an  instance  of  ill  manners  as  flattery. 

Lawless  are  they  who  make  their  wills  their  law. 

A  friend  should  bear  his  friends'  infirmities. — Shakspeare. 

Envy  is  a  weakness  of  poor,  frail,  erring  humanity. 

A  comfortable  old  age  is  the  i"eward  of  a  well-spent  youth. 

A  guileful  heart  always  makes  a  guileful  tongue  and  lips. 

Never  make  your  ear  the  grave  of  another  persons  good  name. 

The  man  who  strictly  adheres  to  truth  will  be  respected. 

The  proudest  monuments  of  earth  will  very  soon  perish. 

The  first  lesson  to  be  taught  the  young,  is  strict  obedience. 

"It  is  employment,"  says  Webster,  "that  makes  men  happy." 

Talent  and  worth  are  the  only  external  grounds  of  distinction. 

A  contented  mind  is  the  greatest  blessing  of  this  transitory  life. 

A  man  of  un-doubted  honesty,  will  always  command  respect. 

Habit,  if  not  resolutely  resisted,  soon  becomes  real  necessity. 

Leisure  is  the  time  for  doing  something  useful  to  mankind. 

They  Trho  seek  wisdom  will  surely  find  her. — Solomon. 

Truth  is  a  noble,  generous,  and  a  glorious  virtue. 

The  love  of  wealth  governs  the  vulgar  herd  of  mankind. 

There  is  a  greater  desire  to  live  long,  than  to  live  well. 

The  utmost  extent  of  human  science  is  very  circumscribed. 

We  make  another  man's  judgment  ours,  by  keeping  his  company. 

There  is  many  a  good  thing  lost  by  not  asking  for  it. 

A  cheerful  countenance  always  betokens  a  good  heart. 

The  virtuous  man  is,  in  the  end,  always  sure  of  his  reward. 

Virtue  alone  is  honor,  glory,  wealth  and  happiness. 

When  the  devil  finds  a  man  idle  he  sets  him  to  work. 


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Be  careful  to  acquire  the  habit  of  untiring  industry. 

The  consciousness  of  doing  good  is  a  sufficient  reward. 

Form  fixed  principles  on  which  to  think  and  act. 

Be  simple  and  neat  in  all  your  personal  habits. 

Endeavor  to  acquire  the  habit  of  doing  everything  well. 

Make  persevering  effort  to  become  master  of  your  temper. 

Good  humor  and  cheerfulness  are  essential  to  true  politeness. 

Make  a  daily  practice  of  reading  the  word  of  God, 

Always  have  a  plan  laid,  beforeiiand,  for  every  day. 

Vice,  virtue  and  time,  are  three  things  that  never  stand  still. 

Revenge  is  a  more  punctual  paymaster,  than  gratitude. 

Depraved  conversation  will  corrupt  the  best  morals. 

Tears  are  frequently  equal  in  weight  to  words. 

To  do  little  things  well,  is,  in  most  cases,  highly  honorable. 

A  mind  fraught  with  integrity,  is  the  noblest  possession. 

The  envious  man  grows  lean  at  the  success  of  his  neighbor. 

Endeavor  to  do  good,  rather  than  be  conspicuous. 

Look  to  budding  mischief  before  it  has  time  to  ripen  into  fruit. 

Every  body  should  be  as  clean  and  neat  as  a  Quaker. 

There  is  no  difficulty  over  which  an  iron  will  can  not  prevail. 

"What  am  I?  how  produced  ?  and  for  what  end? 

Never  indulge  in  levity  upon  what  is  sacred. —  Todd. 

To  keep  the  mind  pure,  keep  it  usefully  employed. 

All  that  time  is  wasted  which  might  be  better  employed. 

Be  careful  to  improve  your  thoughts  wlien  you  are  alone. 

Men  speak  but  little  when  vanity  does  not  induce  tliem. 

Affectation  is  even  more  contemptible  than  weakness. 

He  who  has  not  much  wealth,  has  not  much  care. 

God  looks  only  to  pure,  and  not  to  full  hands. 

He  who  does  not  advance  surely  goes  backward. 

As  your  conduct  has  been,  so  shall  be  its  fruit. 

Truth  is  afraid  of  nothing  but  concealment. 

Ignorance  is  the  lecritimate  mother  of  superstition. 

Catching  at  more,  men  often  lose  what  they  have. 

Content  is  natural  wealth,  luxury  artificial  poverty 

Truth  is  most  powerful,  and  will  ultimately  prevail. 

A  month  of  vexation  will  not  pay  a  farthing  of  debt. 

Virtue  is  equal  to  ten  thousand  shields. — Juvenal. 


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Prosperity  gires  us  friends,  and  adversity  tries  them. 

Nothing  on  all  the  earth  can  smile  but  man. 
Barbarism  is  rendered  intractable  by  the  force  of  custom. 
Resolution  is,  in  most  cases,  almost  omnipotent. 
It  is  always  better  to  wear  out  than  to  rust  out. 
True  nobility  is  derived  from  virtue,  not  from  birth. 
"With  time  and  patience,  the  mulberry  leaf  becomes  silk. 
Politeness  is  but  kind  feeling  toward  others,  acted  out. 
When  you  have  any  thing  to  do,  go  straightly  and  do  it. 
A  newspaper  is  the  history  of  the  world  for  one  day. 
I  would  rather  be  right  than  be  President. — Henry  Clay. 
He  who  foresees  calamities,  suffers  them  twice  over. 
Incessant  pains  the  end  obtains. —  Oommon  Observation. 
Time,  distance,  and  delay,  are  abolished  by  railroads. 
Discharge  your  duty,  and  leave  the  rest  to  Providence. 
Reason  is  a  very  light  rider,  and  easily  shaken  off. 
Trust  not  the  world,  for  it  never  pays  what  it  promises. 
The  way  of  the  world  is  to  make  laws  and  follow  customs. 
Men  very  rarely  like  the  virtues  which  they  have  not. 
He  who  will  not  reflect  is  surely  a  ruined  man. 
Wisdom  is  to  the  mind,  what  health  is  to  the  body. 
Hate  no  one, — hate  their  vices,  not  themselves. — Brainard. 
The  slanderer  and  the  assassin,  differ  only  in  their  weapons. 
A  foe  to  God  was  ne'er  true  friend  to  man. —  Young. 
Contentment  gives  a  crown,  where  fortune  has  denied  it. 
The  fountain  of  contentment  must  spring  up  in  the  mind. 
He  that  oppresseth  the  poor,  reproacheth  his  Maker. 
Gratitude  is  a  virtue  that  has  great  profit  annexed  to  it. 
All  good  principles  must  stagnate  without  moral  activity 
Zeal  for  the  public  good  is  characteristic  of  a  man  of  honor. 


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ACTIONS. 


The  only  things  in  which  we  can  be  said  to  have 
any  property,  are  our  actioDS. — Colton. 

The  moat  unalloyed  pleasure  in  life,  is  the  doing 
of  a  good  action  from  good  motives. — Mrs.  F.  Pitts. 

The  actions  of  men  are  like  the  index  of  a  book  ; 
they  point  out  what  is  most  remarkable  in  them. 

Berkeley/. 

He  is  the  wisest  and  best  man,  who  crowds  the 
most  good  actions  into  now. — It.  B.  Cutter. 


AMBITION. 

I  charge  thee  fling  away  ambition ; 

By  that  sin  fell  angels :  how  can  man,  then, 

The  image  of  his  Maker,  hope  to  .win  by't  ? 

Shakspeare. 

Earth's  highest  station  ends  in  "  Here  he  lies ; " 
And  "  dust  to  dust"  concludes  the  noblest  song. 

Young. 

Dreams,  indeed,  are  ambition;  for  the  very  substance 
of  the  ambitious  is  merely  the  shadow  of  a  dream. 

And  I  hold  ambition  of  so  light  and  airy  a  quality, 
that  it  is  but  a  shadow's  shadow. — Shakspeare. 


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One  breast  laid  open  were  a  school, 
Which  would  unteach  mankind  the  lust  to  shine  or 
rule. — Byron. 

Ambition  is  the  way  in  which  a  vulgar  man  aspires. 

H.  Ward  Beecher. 


ASSOCIATES. 

If  you  always  live  with  those  who  are  lame,  you  will 
yourself  learn  to  limp. — From  the  Latin. 

If  men  wish  to  be  held  in  esteem,  they  must  asso- 
ciate with  the  estimable. — La  Brut/ere. 

Choose  the  company  of  your  superiors,  whenever 
you  can  have  it ;  that  is  the  right  and  true  pride. 

Lord  Chesterfield. 

Thou  art  noble ;  yet,  I  see, 
The  honorable  metal  may  be  wrought 
From  that  it  is  disposed.     Therefore,  'tis  meet 
That  noble  minds  keep  ever  with  their  likes : 
For  who  so  firm  that  can  not  be  seduced  tShahspeare. 

He  that  walketh  with  wise  men  shall  be  wise ;  but 
a  companion  of  fools  shall  be  destroyed. — Solomon. 

You  may  depend  upon  it  that  he  is  a  good  man 
whose  intimate  friends  are  all  good,  and  whose  ene- 
mies are  characters  decidedly  bad. — Lavater. 


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Mankind  will,  in  a  great  degree,  form  their 
opinion  of  you,  upon  that  which  they  have  of  your 
intimate  friends  and  associates. — R.  B.  Cutter. 


ATTENTION. 

Without  attention  you  can  succeed  in  nothing ;  and 
without  strict  attention,  books  are  as  valueless  to 
you  as  mere  blank  sheets. 

By  attention,  Cuvier  became  so  versed  in  compara- 
tive anatomy,  that  when  a  little  bone  was  shown  him, 
he  could  tell  to  what  class  of  animals  it  belonged. 

Means  and  Ends. 

It  was  attention  to  the  falling  of  an  apple  from  a 
tree,  which  led  Newton  to  the  discovery  of  the  law 
of  gravity,  by  which  all  ponderable  substances  are 
attracted  to  the  center  of  the  earth. — D.  B.  Adams. 

Attention  to  the  rise  and  fall  of  the  lid  of  a  boiling 
tea-kettle,  has  led  to  steamboats,  steamships,  and 
railroads. — Means  and  Ends. 

It  is  by  attention  to  his  barometer  that  the  mari- 
ner avoids  shipwreck. — Redwood. 

By  attention,  the  Indian  finds  his  way  through 
the  pathless  desert ;  and  the  physician,  by  attention 
to  the  condition  of  the  skin,  eye,  and  pulse  of  the 
patient,  applies  the  healing  art. — Home. 


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By  attention,  the  deaf  mutes  are  taught  language, 
and  the  blind  learn  to  read. — Means  and  Ends. 

It  is  by  attention  that  0.  S.  Fowler,  and  others, 
have  learned  to  read  in  the  human  head  and  face, 
those  beamings  of  love,  that  no  language  can  express, 
and  of  aversion,  that  stillness  of  tongue  can  not  con- 
ceal. 


AVARICE. 

The  avaricious  person  is  kind  to  no  one,  but  is 
most  unkind  to  himself. — Latin  Proverb. 

No  amount  of  money,  however  large,  can  satisfy 
the  avaricious  feelings  of  the  human  heart. 

Mrs.  R.  Morrell. 

"Avarice  is  so  insatiable,  that  it  is  not  in  the  power 
of  liberality  to  content  it ;  and  man's  desires  are  so 
boundless,  that  whatever  he  gets  is  but  in  the  way 
of  getting  more,  without  end. 

"  'What  walls  can  bound,  or  compelling  rein, 
The  ungoverned  lust  of  avarice  restrain.'  " 

It  may  be  remarked  for  the  comfort  of  honest 
poverty,  that  avarice  reigns  most  in  those  who  have 
but  few  good  qualities  to  recommend  them.  This  is 
a  weed  that  grows  only  in  a  barren  soil. — Hughes. 


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BENEVOLENCE— BENEFICENCE. 

When  the  good  Fenelon's  Library — immense 
library, — was  in  flames,  "God  be  praised,"  said  he, 
"that  it  is  not  the  dwelling  of  a  poor  man."  This 
is  the  true  spirit  of  benevolence. 

There  is  no  use  of  money  equal  to  that  of  Benefi- 
cence; here  the  enjoyment  grows  on  reflection. 

Mackenzie. 

Constantly  cherish  the  God-like  virtue,  benevo- 
lence, for  it  will  shine  through  your  life  like  light 
from  the  celestial  regions. — Mrs.  Elizabeth  Adams. 

To  find  one  thankful  man,  I  will  oblige  many  that 
are  not  so. — Seneca. 

He  who  receives  a  good  turn  should  never  forget 
it ;  he  who  does  one,  should  never  remember  it. 

Charron. 

The  rich  should  not  reserve  their  benevolence  for 
purposes  after  they  are  dead ;  for  those  who  give  not 
till  they  die,  show  that  they  would  not  then  if  they 
could  keep  it  any  longer. — Bishop  Hall. 

Remember  earth  has  one  privilege  above  heaven. 
It  is  that  of  Beneficence.  The  privilege  of  passing 
by  a  transgression,  of  relieving  the  distressed,  of 
spreading  the  Scriptures,  of  evangelizing  the  heathen, 
of  instructing  the  ignorant,  of  reclaiming  the  vicious 
— "  of  seeking  and  saving  them  that  are  lost." — Jay. 


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The  disposition  to  give  a  cup  of  cold  water  to  a 
disciple  is  a  far  nobler  property  than  the  finest  in- 
tellect. Satan  has  a  fine  intellect,  but  not  the 
image  of  God. — Bowels. 

Men  resemble  the  gods  in  nothing  so  much,  as  in 
doing  good  to  their  fellow-creatures. — Cicei'o. 


BIBLE. 

The  Bible  has  God  for  its  author,  salvation  for  its 
end,  and  truth,  without  mixture  of  error,  for  its 
matter. — Dr.  Locke. 

At  any  price  give  me  the  book  of  God. —  Wesley. 

The  most  momentous  concern  of  man  is  the  state 
he  shall  enter  upon  at  the  close  of  this  short  life. 
The  Bible  is  the  only  source  of  information  as  to 
what  that  state  shall  be ;  and  its  heavenly  teachings 
fully  enable  us  to  make  that  state  glorious. 

J).  B.  Adams. 

Leo  the  Tenth  knew  that  the  pontifical  hierarchy 
did  support,  and  was  reciprocally  supported  by  a 
superstition  that  was  false ;  but  he  also  knew  that 
the  Bible  was  true,  and  that  truth  and  falsehood 
assimilate  not;  therefore  he  withheld  the  Bible  from 
the  laity. — Colton. 

The  whole  preparation  for  a  coming  eternity  is, 
believe  what  the  Bible  tells  you,  and  do  what  the 
Bible  bids  you. — Br.  Chalmers. 


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In  what  light  so  ever  we  regard  the  Bible,  whether 
with  reference  to  revelation,  to  history,  or  to  moral- 
ity, it  is  an  invaluable  and  inexhaustible  mine  of 
knowledge  and  virtue. — John  Q.  Adams. 

The  great  mass  of  mankind  have  misunderstood 
the  real  object  of  life  on  earth,  or  else  he  misunder- 
stands who  follows  the  light  of  the  Bible. 

Precious  Bible !  what  a  treasure 

Does  the  word  of  God  aflford ! — 
All  I  want  for  life  or  pleasure, 

Food  and  medicine,  shield  and  sword. 
Let  the  world  account  me  poor, 
Having  this,  I  need  no  more. — Newton. 

I  confess  that  the  majesty  of  the  Scriptures  aston- 
ishes me,  that  the  sanctity  of  the  Gospel  speaks  to 
my  heart.  View  the  books  of  the  philosophers  with 
all  their  pomp,  and  what  a  littleness  they  possess 
compared  with  the  Scriptures. — Rosseau. 

A  matchless  Temple,  where  I  delight  to  be,  to  con- 
template the  beauty,  the  symmetry,  and  the  magnifi- 
cence of  the  structure,  and  to  increase  my  awe,  and 
excite  my  devotion  to  the  Deity  there  preached  and 
adored. — Boyle. 

That  the  truths  of  the  Bible  have  the  power  of 
awakening  an  intense  moral  feeling  in  man  under 
every  variety  of  character, — learned  or  ignorant, 
civilized  or  savage;  that  they  make  bad  men  good, 
and  send  a  pulse  of  healthful  feeling  through  all  the 


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domestic,  civil  and  social  relations  ;  that  they  teach 
men  to  love  right,  to  hate  wrong,  and  to  seek  each 
other's  -welfare,  as  the  children  of  one  common 
parent ;  that  they  control  the  baleful  passions  of  the 
human  heai't,  and  thus  make  men  proficient  in  the 
science  of  self-government ;  and,  finally,  that  they 
teach  him  to  aspire  after  a  conformity  to  a  Being  of 
infinite  holiness,  and  fill  him  with  hopes  infinitely 
more  purifying,  more  exalted,  more  suited  to  his 
nature,  than  any  other  which  this  world  has  ever 
known,  are  facts  as  incontrovertible  as  the  laws  of 
philosophy,  or  the  demonstrations  of  mathematics. 

Dr.  Wayland. 


BIGOTRY. 

Show  me  the  man  who  would  go  to  heaven  alone 
if  he  could,  and  in  that  man  I  will  show  you  one  who 
will  never  be  admitted  into  heaven. — Feltham. 

Bigotry  murders  religion  to  frighten  fools  with 
her  ghost. — Colton. 

The  good  old  man,  too  eager  in  dispute, 
Flew  high ;  and  as  his  Christian  fury  rose, 
Damned  all  for  heretics  who  durst  oppose. 

Dryden. 


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CENSURE. 

Censure  is  a  tax  a  man  pays  to  the  public,  for 
being  eminent. — Swift. 

The  censure  of  those  opposed  to  us,  is  the  nicest 
commendation  that  can  be  given  us. — St.  Mvremond, 

Censure  has  all  the  invidiousness  of  self-praise, 
and  all  the  reproach  of  falsehood. — Miss  M.  Morrell. 

The  readiest  and  surest  way  to  get  rid  of  censure 
is,  to  correct  ourselves. — Demosthenes. 

The  censure  of  our  fellow-men,  which  we  are  so 
prone  to  esteem  a  proof  of  our  superior  wisdom,  is 
too  often  only  the  evidence  of  the  conceit  that  would 
magnify  self,  and  of  the  malignity  or  envy  that 
would  detract  from  others. — T.  Edwards. 

To  arrive  at  perfection,  a  man  should  have  very 
sincere  friends,  or  inveterate  enemies ;  because  he 
would  be  made  sensible  of  his  good  or  ill  conduct, 
either  by  the  censures  of  the  one,  or  the  admonitions 
of  the  other. — Diogenes. 

It  is  a  folly  for  an  eminent  man  to  think  of  escap- 
ing censure,  and  a  weakness  to  be  ajQfected  by  it. 
All  illustrious  persons  of  antiquity,  and  indeed 
of  every  age,  have  passed  through  this  fiery  per- 
secution.— Addison. 

There  are  but  three  ways  for  a  man  to  revenge 
himself  of  censure  of  the  world :  to  despise  it,  to 


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return  the  like,  or  to  endeavor  to  live  so  as  to  avoid 
it.  The  first  of  these  is  usually  pretended,  the  last 
is  almost  impossible,  the  universal  practice  is  in 
favor  of  the  second. — Sioift. 


CHARACTER,  REPUTATION. 

The  character  is  like  white  paper ;  if  once  blotted 
it  can  hardly  ever  be  made  to  appear  as  white  as 
before.  One  wrong  step  often  stains  the  character 
for  life. — Berkeley. 

A  pure  mind  is  the  foundation  of  a  pure  character ; 
and  a  pure  character  is  of  amazing  worth  to  every 
young  person. 

Nothing  of  character  is  really  permanent,  but 
virtue  and  personal  worth.     These  remain. 

Daniel  Webster. 

It  is  the  possession  of  established  and  unwavering 
principles,  that  makes  a  man  a  firm  character. 

Todd. 

A  good  name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than  great 
riches,  and  loving  favor  rather  than  silver  and  ffold. 

Solomon. 

As  they  who  for  every  slight  infirmity,  take  medi- 
cine to  repair  their  health,  rather  impair  it ;  so  they 
who,  for  every  trifle,  are  eager  to  vindicate  their 
character,  rather  weaken  it. —  Old   Writer. 


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Good  character  is  like  stock  in  trade,  the  more  of 
it  a  man  has,  the  greater  his  facilities  for  adding 
to  it.  Good  character  is  power  and  influence;  it 
makes  good  friends ;  creates  funds ;  draws  patronage 
and  support ;  and  opens  a  sure  and  easy  way  to 
wealth,  honor,  and  happiness. — Hawes. 

A  good  character  is,  in  all  cases,  the  fruit  of  per- 
sonal exertion.  It  is  not  created  by  external  advan- 
tages; it  is  no  necessary  appendage  of  birth,  talents, 
or  station ;  but  it  is  the  fruit  and  reward  of  good 
principles  manifested  in  a  course  of  virtuous  and 
honorable  action. — Hawes. 

Those  who  quit  their  own  proper  character  to 
assume  some  other,  are,  for  the  most  part,  ignorant 
both  of  the  character  they  leave,  and  of  the  one  they 
assume. — Burke. 

In  a  truly  good  character  we  look,  first  of  all,  for 
integrity,  or  unbending  regard  to  rectitude  ;  then  for 
independence,  or  the  habitual  determination  to  be 
governed  by  an  enlightened  conviction  of  truth  and 
duty  ;  then  for  benevolence,  or  the  spirit  of  kindness 
and  good  will  to  men ;  and  last,  but  not  least,  for 
piety  toward  God,  or  an  affectionate  regard  for  the 
will  and  glory  of  the  great  Jehovah. — Haives. 

Character  and  reputation  are  individually  different. 
Character  is  what  you  really  are  ;  Reputation  is  the 
estimation,  false  or  true,  which  the  world  puts  upon 
you. 


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The  way  to  gain  a  good  reputation  is,  to  endeavor 
to  be  what  you  desire  to  appear. — Socrates. 

A  watchful  regard  to  one's  reputation  in  early 
youth,  will  be  of  incalculable  benefit  to  us  in  after 
life.— iJ/m  A.  G.  N.  Morrell. 

A  fair  reputation  is  a  plant,  delicate  in  its  nature, 
and  by  no  means  rapid  in  its  growth.  It  will  not 
shoot  up  in  a  night,  like  the  gourd  of  the  prophet ; 
but  like  that  gourd  it  may  perish  in  a  night. — Taylor. 

The  purest  treasure  mortal  times  afford. 

Is  spotless  reputation  ;  that  away, 

Men  are  but  gilded  loam,  or  painted  clay. 

Shakspeare. 

"  Individual  character  is  almost  universally  a  com- 
pound from  the  characters  of  others.  If  it  is  true 
that  one  fool  makes  many,  it  is  not  less  clear  that 
many  fools  or  many  wise  men  make  one." 

Character,  like  porcelain  ware,  must  be  painted 
before  it  is  glazed.  There  can  be  no  change  after  it 
is  burned  in. — Henry  Ward  Beecher. 

Good  name,  in  man  and  woman. 

Is  the  immediate  jewel  of  their  souls. 

ShaTcspeare. 

How  wonderfully  beautiful  is  the  delineation  of 
the  characters  of  the  three  patriarchs  in  Genesis  ! 
To  be  sure,  if  ever  man  could,  without  impropriety, 


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be  called,  or  supposed  to  be,  "the  friend  of  God," 
Abraham  was  that  man.  We  are  not  surprised  that 
Abimelech  and  Ephron  seem  to  reverence  him  so 
profoundly.  He  was  peaceful,  because  of  his  con- 
scious relation  to  God — S.  T.  Coleridge. 


CHARITY. 

A  man's  true  wealth  hereafter,  is  the  good  he  does 
in  this  world  to  his  fellow-man. — Mrs.  F.  Pitts, 

In  faith  and  hope  the  world  will  disagree, 
But  all  mankind's  concerned  in  charity. 

Pope. 

The  truly  generous  is  the  truly  wise, 
And  he  who  loves  not  others,  lives  unblessed. 

Some. 

Would'st  thou  from  sorrow  find  a  sweet  relief. 
Or  is  thy  heart  oppressed  with  woes  untold? 
Balm  would'st  thou  gather  for  corroding  grief? 
Pour  blessings  round  thee,  like  a  shower  of  gold. 

Wilcox. 

Give  employment,  rather  than  alms  to  the  poor. 
The  former  drives  out  indolence,  the  latter,  industry. 

World's  Laconics. 

We  owe  every  allowance  to  the  faults  of  others, 
being  conscious  that  we  too  have  our  share  of  im- 
perfection.— Scott. 


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When  u  charitable  man  dies,  people  will  say, 
"  "What  property  has  he  left  behind  him  ?*'  But  the 
angels  will  ask,  "What  good  deeds  has  he  sent 
before  him  ?" 

Mercy  is  seasonable  in  time  of  affliction;  like 
showers  of  rain  in  time  of  great  drought. — Jones. 

It  is  a  mark  of  littleness  of  spirit  to  confine  your 
inspections  to  some  minute  part  of  a  person's  char- 
acter. A  man  of  generous,  open,  extended  views, 
will  grasp  the  whole  of  it ;  without  which  he  can  not 
pass  a  right  judgment  on  any  part. — Scott's  Lessons. 

Humanity  is  the  basis  of  the  Christian  religion, 
and  they  who  are  not  charitable  can  not  be  Christians. 

Charity  suffereth  long,  and  is  kind:  charity  en- 
vieth  not ;  charity  vaunteth  not  itself;  is  not  puffed 
up ;  doth  not  behave  itself  unseemly ;  seeketh  not 
her  own  ;  is  not  easily  provoked ;  thinketh  no  evil ; 
rejoiceth  not  in  iniquity,  but  rejoiceth  in  the  truth  ; 
beareth  all  things,  believeth  all  things,  endureth  all 
things. — iSt.  Paul. 

It  is  a  duty  incumbent  on  the  wise,  to  bear  with 
such  as  are  not  so. — D.  B.  Adams. 

Gently  to  hear,  kindly  to  judge. — Shakspeare. 

The  drying  up  of  a  single  tear  has  more 
Of  honest  fame,  than  shedding  seas  of  gore. 

Byron, 


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Public  charities  and  benevolent  associations  for 
the  gratuitous  relief  of  every  species  of  distress,  are 
peculiar  to  Christianity  ;  no  other  system  of  civil  or 
religious  policy  has  originated  them;  they  form  its 
highest  praise  and  characteristic  feature, — Colion. 

Judge  of  yourself  with  rigor,  but  of  others  with  the 
softnings  of  humanity.     Miss  Myrtilla  Morrell. 


CHEERFULNESS,  SADNESS. 

Cheerfulness  keeps  up  a  kind  of  day-light  in  the 
soul  of  man,  filling  it  with  a  steady  and  perpetual 
serenity. — •Observation. 

To  be  happy,  the  passion  must  be  cheerful  and 
gay,  not  gloomy  and  melancholy.  A  propensity  to 
hope  and  joy  is  real  riches ;  one  to  fear  and  sorrow, 
real  poverty. — Hume. 

Keep  aloof  from  sadness,  for  it  is  a  sickness  of 
the  soul. — Sigourney. 

A  cheerful  temper,  joined  with  innocence,  makes 
beauty  attractive,  knowledge  delightful,  and  wit 
good  natured.  It  lightens  sickness,  poverty,  and 
affliction ;  converts  ignorance  into  amiable  simplicity, 
and  renders  deformity  itself  agreeable. — Addison. 

Cheerful  looks  make  every  dish  a  feast. 
And  'tis  that  crowns  a  welcome. — Massinger. 


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Moral  sufferings  very  speedily  undermine  human 
health.     0 !  keep  the  mind  cheerful. 

Mrs.  R.  Morrell. 

The  most  manifest  sign  of  wisdom,  is  continued 
cheerfulness . — Mo  ntaigne. 

Cheerfulness  ought  to  be  the  viaticum  vitoe  of  their 
life  to  the  old ;  age  without  cheerfulness,  is  a  Lap- 
land winter  without  a  sun  ;  and  this  spirit  of  cheer- 
fulness should  be  encouraged  in  our  youth,  if  we 
would  have  the  benefit  of  it  in  our  old  age ;  time 
will  make  a  generous  wine  more  mellow,  but  it  will 
turn  that  which  is  early  on  the  fret,  to  vinegar. 

Colton. 


CONTENTMENT. 

Contentment  is  a  pearl  of  great  price,  and  who- 
ever procures  it  at  the  expense  of  ten  thousand 
desires,  makes  a  wise  and  happy  purchase. — Balguy. 

The  highest  point  outward  things  can  bring  unto, 
is  the  contentment  of  the  mind  ;  with  which  no  estate 
can  be  poor ;  and  without  which  all  estates  are 
miserable.     Sir  P.  Sidney. 

A  contented  mind  is  the  greatest  blessing  a  man 
can  enjoy  in  this  world ;  and  if,  in  the  present  life 
his  happiness  arises  from  the  subduing  of  his  desires, 
it  will  arise  in  the  next,  from  the  gratification  of 
them. — Addison. 


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Content  swells  a  mite  into  a  talent,  and  makes 
even  the  poor  richer  than  the  Indies. 

World's  Laconics. 

Alas !  if  the  principles  of  contentment  are  not 
within  us,  the  hight  of  station,  and  worldly  grandeur, 
will  as  soon  add  a  cubit  to  a  man's  stature,  as  to  his 
happiness. — Sterne. 

The  fountain  of  contentment  must  spring  up  in 
the  mind ;  and  he  who  has  so  little  knowledge  of 
human  nature,  as  to  seek  happiness  by  changing  any 
thing  but  his  own  dispositions,  will  waste  his  life  in 
fruitless  efforts,  and  multiply  the  griefs  he  purposes 
to  remove. — Johnson. 

If  two  angels  were  sent  down  from  heaven,  one  to 
conduct  an  empire,  the  other  to  sweep  a  street,  they 
would  feel  no  inclination  to  change  employments. 

John  Newton. 

Whatever  difference  there  may  appear  to  be  in 
men's  fortunes,  there  is  still  a  certain  compensation 
of  good  and  ill,  that  makes  them  equal. — Charron. 

It  is  a  celebrated  thought  of  Socrates,  that,  if  all 
the  misfortunes  of  mankind  were  cast  into  a  public 
stock,  in  order  to  be  equally  distributed  among  the 
whole  species,  those  who  think  themselves  the  most 
unhappy,  would  prefer  the  share  they  are  already 
possessed  of,  before  that  which  would  fall  to  them 
by  such  a  division.  Horace  has  carried  this  thought 
much  further,  which  implies  that  the  hardships  or 


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misfortunes  we  lie  under,  are  more  easy  to  us  than 
those  of  any  other  person  vrould  he,  in  case  we 
could  exchange  conditions  with  him. — Addison. 

There  never  was  any  system  hut  that  of  Christi- 
anity, which  could  effectually  produce  in  the  mind 
of  man  the  virtue  of  contentment.  Religion  bears 
a  tender  regard  to  human  nature.  It  prescribes  to 
the  miserable  man  the  means  of  improving  his  con- 
dition: nay,  it  shows  him,  that  to  bear  his  afflic- 
tions as  he  ought,  will  naturally  end  in  the  removal 
of  them.  It  makes  him  contented  here,  because  it 
can  make  him  happy  hereafter. — D.  B.  Adams. 

Think'st  thou  the  man  whose  mansions  hold 
The  worldling's  pomp,  and  miser's  gold, 

Obtains  a  richer  prize, 
Than  he  who,  in  his  cot  at  rest, 
Finds  heavenly  peace  a  willing  guest, 
And  bears  the  promise  in  his  breast. 

Of  treasure  in  the  skies  ? — Mrs.  Sigourney. 


COOKERY. 

More  evils  than  ever  were  fabled  of  Pandora's  box, 
are  sent  abroad  in  the  land  by  bad  cooks.  Cook- 
ing requires  study,  and  constant  exercise  of  judg- 
ment and  skill. — Means  and  Ends. 

Cooking  should  be  well  understood  by  the  wives 
and  daughters  of  our  farmers,  mechanics,  merchants, 


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manufacturers,  ministers,  lawyers  and  doctors.  No 
ladj  is  too  high  to  regulate  the  process  of  domestic 
cookery;  but  on  the  contrary,  it  would  be  a  real 
honor  to  a  Princess. — Mrs.  R.  Morrell. 


COVETOUSNESS. 

If  money  be  not  thy  servant,  it  will  be  thy  master. 
The  covetous  man  can  not  so  properly  be  said  to 
possess  wealth,  as  that  may  be  said  to  possess  him. 

Lord  Bacon. 

The  only  gratification  a  covetous  man  gives  his 
neighbors  is,  to  let  them  see  that  he  himself  is  as 
little  better  for  what  he  has,  as  they  are. — Penn.    - 

Covetous  men  are  fools,  miserable  wretches,  mad 
men,  who  live  by  themselves  in  perpetual  slavery, 
fear,  suspicion,  sorrow,  discontent,  with  more  of  gall 
than  honey  in  their  enjoyments,  who  are  rather  pos- 
sessed by  their  money  than  possessors  of  it ;  bound 
'prentices  to  their  property ;  and  mean  slaves  and 
drudges  to  their  substance. — Burton. 

When  all  sins  are  old  in  us. 

And  go  upon  crutches,  covetousness 

Does  but  then  lie  in  her  cradle. — BecJcer. 

The  covetous  man  reverses  the  principle  on  which 
iEsop  chose  his  burden,  and  oppi esses  himself  with 
a  heavier  load  of  provisions  the  nearer  he  gets  to 
the  end  of  his  journey. — Colton. 


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Take  heed  and  beware  of  covetousness;  for  a 
man's  life  consisteth  not  in  the  abundance  of  the 
things  which  he  possesseth. — Luke,  xii.,  15. 

The  covetous  person  lives  as  if  the  world  were 
made  altogether  for  him,  and  not  he  for  the  world ; 
to  take  in  every  thing,  and  part  with  nothing. 

South, 


CREDULITY. 

Credulity  is  belief  on  slight  evidence,  with  no 
evidence,  or  against  evidence.  In  this  sense  it  is 
the  infidel,  not  the  believer,  who  is  credulous.  "  The 
simple,"  says  Solomon,  "believeth  every  word." 

WorldJ's  Laconics. 

Credulousness  is  the  concomitant  of  the  first 
stages  of  life ;  and  is  indeed  the  principle  on  which 
all  instruction  must  be  founded;  but  it  lays  the  mind 
open  to  impressions  of  error  as  well  as  of  truth ;  and 
when  suifered  to  combine  itself  with  that  passion  for 
the  marvelous — which  all  children  discover,  it  fos- 
ters the  rankest  weeds  of  chimera  and  superstition. 
Hence,  the  awful  solemnity  of  "darkness  visible," 
and  what  the  poet  has  denominated  "  a  dim  religious 
light ;"  together  with  the  terrors  of  evil  omens,  or 
haunted  places,  and  of  ghastly  specters. — Percival. 

Charles  the  second,  hearing  Vossius,  a  celebrated 
free-thinker,  or  infidel,  repeating  some  incredible 


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Stories  about  the  Chinese,  said :  "  This  is  a  very- 
strange  man.  He  believes  every  thing  but  the 
Bible." 

The  credulity  which  has  faith  in  goodness,  is  a 
mark  of  goodness. 


CUNNING— PRUDENCE— DISCRETION. 

Cunning  is  none  of  the  best  nor  worst  quality ;  it 
floats  between  virtue  and  vice  :  there  is  scarcely  any 
exigence  where  it  may  not  be  supplied  by  prudence. 

Bruyere. 

Cunning  pays  no  regard  to  virtue,  and  is  but  the 
low  mimic  of  wisdom. — Bolinghrohe. 

The  certain  way  to  be  cheated,  is  to  fancy  one's 
self  more  cunning  than  others. — Charron. 

Cunning  leads  to  knavery  ;  it  is  but  a  step  from 
one  to  the  other,  and  that  very  slippery  ;  lying  only 
makes  the  difference  ;  add  that  to  cunning  and  it  is 
knavery. — Bruyere. 

Cunning  has  only  private  selfish  aims,  and  sticks 
at  nothing  which  may  make  them  successful.  Dis- 
cretion has  large  and  extended  views,  and  like  a  well 
formed  eye,  commands  the  whole  horizon.  Cunning 
is  a  kind  of  short  sightedness,  that  discovers  the 
minutest  objects  near  at  hand,  but  is  unable  to  dis- 
cover things  at  a  distance.     Discretion,  the  more  it 


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is  discovered,  gives  a  greater  authority  to  the  per- 
son who  possesses  it ;  cunning,  once  detected,  loses 
its  force,  and  makes  a  man  incapable  of  bringing 
about  even  those  events  which  he  might  have  done, 
had  he  passed  only  for  a  plain  man.  Discretion  is 
the  perfection  of  reason,  and  a  guide  to  us  in  all 
the  duties  of  life  ;  cunning  is  a  kind  of  instinct,  that 
only  looks  out  after  our  immediate  interest.  Discre- 
tion is  only  found  in  men  of  strong  sense  and  good 
understanding.  Cunning  is  often  to  be  met  with  in 
brutes  themselves,  and  in  persons  who  are  but  a 
short  remove  from  them. — Addison. 

There  are  many  shining  qualities  in  the  mind 
of  man ;  but  none  so  useful  as  discretion. — Addison. 

A  cunning  man  overreaches  no  one  half  so  much 
as  himself. — ff.  Ward  Beeeher. 

No  other  protection  is  needed,  provided  you  are 
under  the  guidance  of  prudence. — Juvenal. 

Men  are  born  with  two  eyes,  but  with  one  tongue, 
in  order  that  they  should  see  twice  as  much  as  they 
say. — Colt  on. 


CURIOSITY. 

How  much  time  and  ease  that  man  gains,  who  is 
not  troubled  with  the  spirit  of  impertinent  curiosity 
about  others,  and  about  their  business  and  actions ; 


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who  lets  his  neighbor's  thoughts  and  behavior  alone ; 
who  is  inclined  to  confine  his  inspections  to  himself, 
and  cares  chiefly  for  his  own  duty  and  conscience. 

Berkeley. 


CUSTOM— HABIT  — USB. 

Habit,  if  not  resolutely  resisted,  soon  becomes 
necessity. — Augustine. 

Habits  are  to  the  soul,  what  veins  and  arteries  are 
to  the  blood,  the  courses  in  which  it  moves. 

H.  BusTinell. 

Habits,  though  in  their  commencement  like  the 
filmy  line  of  the  spider,  trembling  at  every  breeze, 
may,  in  the  end,  prove  as  links  of  tempered  steel, 
binding  a  deathless  being  to  eternal  felicity  or  woe. 

Sigourney. 

Never  did  any  soul  do  good,  but  it  more  readily 
did  the  same  again,  with  increased  enjoyment. 
Never  was  love,  or  gratitude,  or  benevolence,  prac- 
ticed but  with  increasing  joy,  which  made  the  prac- 
ticer  still  more  in  love  with  the  fair  act. — Shafishury. 

In  early  childhood  we  may  lay  the  foundation  of 
poverty  or  riches,  of  industry  or  idleness,  good  or 
evil,  by  the  habits  to  which  we  train  our  children. 
Solomon  understood  the  force  of  habit,  as  we  may 
infer  from  his  injunction  :  "  Train  up  a  child  in  the 
way  he  should  go,  and  when  he  is  old  he  will  not 
depart  from  it." 


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There  is  one  feature  in  the  law  of  habit  so  import- 
ant, and  so  uniformly  sure  in  its  operation,  as  to 
call  for  the  notice  of  all.  It  is  this :  our  power  of 
passive  sensation  is  weakened  by  the  repetition  of 
impressions,  just  as  certainly  as  our  active  pro- 
pensities are  strengthened  by  the  repetition  of 
actions. — Berkeley. 

How  use  doth  breed  a  habic  in  a  man. 

Shahs-peare. 

We  make  laws,  but  follow  customs. — Montague. 

Man  is  a  bundle  of  habits,  and  happy  is  he  whose 
habits  are  his  friends. 

There  are  habits,  not  only  of  drinking,  swearing, 

lying,  and  some  other  things  which  are  commonly 

acknowledged  to  be  such,  but  of  every  modification 

of  speech  and  thought.     Man  is  a  bundle  of  habits. 

There  are  habits  of  industry,  attention,  advertency ; 

of  a  prompt  obedience  to  the  judgment  occurring, 

or  of  yielding  to  the  first  impulses   of  passion ;   of 

extending  our  views  to  the  future,  or  of  resting  upon 

the  present;  of  apprehending  methodizing,  reasoning; 

of  indolence,  dilatoriness  ;   of  vanity,  self-conceit, 

melancholly,   partiality ;    of   fretfulness,   suspicion, 

captiousness,  censoriousness  ;  pride,  ambition,  covet- 

ousness  ;  of  overreaching,  intriguing,  projecting  :  in 

a  word  there  is  not  a  quality  or  function,  either  of 

body  or  mind,  which  does  not  feel  the  influence  of 

this  great  law  of  animated  nature. — Paley. 
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I  trust  every  thing,  under  God,  to  habit,  upon 
which,  in  all  ages,  the  law-giver,  as  well  as  the 
school-master,  has  mainly  placed  his  reliance  ;  habit 
"which  makes  every  thing  easy,  and  casts  all  difficul- 
ties upon  the  deviation  from  the  wonted  course. 
Make  sobriety  a  habit,  and  intemperance  will  be 
hateful  and  hard ;  make  prudence  a  habit,  and  reck- 
less profligacy  will  be  as  contrary  to  the  nature  of 
the  child  grown  an  adult,  as  the  most  atrocious 
crimes  to  any  of  your  lordships.  Give  a  child  the 
habit  of  sacredly  regarding  the  truth,  of  carefully 
respecting  the  property  of  others,  of  scrupulously 
abstaining  from  all  acts  of  improvidence  which  can 
involve  him  in  distress,  and  he  will  just  as  likely 
think  of  rushing  into  the  element  in  which  he  can 
not  breathe,  as  of  lying,  or  cheating,  or  stealing. 

Lord  Brougham. 

Custom  does  often  reason  overrule, 

And  only  serves  for  reason  to  the  fool. — Rochester. 

All  habits  gather  by  unseen  degrees. 

As  brooks  make  rivers,  rivers  run  to  seas. — Dryden. 

Custom  forms  us  all ; 
Our  thoughts,  our  morals,  our  most  fixed  belief, 
Are  consequences  of  our  place  of  birth. — HiU. 

A  blind  submission  to  inveterate  custom,  sets  aside 
all  rationality. 

It  is  in  the  nature  of  good  or  bad  habits,  to  con- 
firm and  strengthen  themselves. 


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The  whole  character  may  be  said  to  be  compre- 
hended in  the  term,  habits;  so  that  it  is  not  far  from 
being  true,  that  "man  is  a  bundle  of  habits." — Todd. 

Choose  life  actions  that  are  most  proper,  and  cus- 
tom will  render  them  most  easy  and  agreeable. 

Miss  31yrtilla  Morrell. 

Habits  are  easily  formed,  especially  such  as  are 
bad  ;  and  what  to-day  seems  a  small  affair,  will  soon 
become  fixed,  and  hold  yon  with  the  strength  of  a 
cable.  The  cable,  you  will  recollect,  is  formed  by 
spinning  and  twisting  one  thread  at  a  time,  but 
when  completed,  the  proudest  ship  turns  her  head 
toward  it,  and  acknowledges  her  subjection  to  its 
power. —  Todd. 

Would  you  know  who  is  the  most  degraded  and 
wretched  of  mankind,  look  for  one  that  has  practiced 
a  vice  so  long  that  he  even  loathes  and  curses  it  and 
clings  to  it :  that  he  pursues  it  because  it  has  become 
"  second  nature  ;"  but  reaching  it,  he  is  conscious 
that  it  will  gnaw  his  heart  like  a  tiger,  and  make 
him  roll  himself  in  the  dust  with  anguish. — Berkeley. 

Custom  bestows  ease  and  confidence,  even  in  the 
midst  of  great  danger. 

Custom  is  a  great  leveler.  It  corrects  the  inequal- 
ities of  fortune,  by  lessening  equally  the  pleasures 
of  the  rich,  and  the  pains  of  the  poor. 


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Would  you  contemplate  one  of  the  most  degraded, 
and  most  to  be  pitied  of  all  men,  look  upon  the  poor 
inebriate  laboring  under  delirium  tremens,  who  by  a 
great  law  of  his  nature  is  irresistably  drawn  into  the 
yawning  mouth  of  hell,  with  all  its  most  highly  pic- 
tured horrors,  as  the  poor  bird  with  all  its  chattcr- 
ings  of  distress  is  drawn  into  the  open  mouth  of  the 
charming  serpent. 

"  Let  the  best  course  of  life  your  choice  invite. 
For  custom  soon  will  turn  it  to  delight." 

The  old  man  who  has  occupied  a  particular  cor- 
ner of  the  old  fire-place,  in  the  old  house,  for  sixty 
years,  may  be  rendered  miserable  by  a  change. 

A  habit  may,  in  its  infancy,  come  in  at  the  key- 
hole of  your  door ;  and  if  you  entertain  and  cherish 
it,  it  will  soon  grow  tod  large  for  your  parlor. 

Mrs.  E.  Adams. 

By  nourishing  and  cherishing  an  evil  habit,  and 
by  feeding  it  with  your  own  vitality,  you  will  soon 
give  it  a  strength  superior  to  your  own. 

Wm.  T.  Jones. 

Where  all  moves  equally  (says  Paschal)  nothing 
seems  to  move,  as  in  a  vessel  under  sail;  and  when 
all  run  by  common  consent  into  vice,  none  appear  to 
do  so.  He  who  stops  first,  views,  as  from  a  fixed 
point,  the  horrible  extravagance  that  transports  the 
rest. — Colton. 


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An  aged  prisoner  of  the  Bastile,  on  being 
released,  entreated  that  he  might  be  permitted  to 
return  to  his  gloomy  dungeon ;  because  his  habits 
there  formed  were  so  strong,  that  his  nature  threat- 
ened to  sink  under  the  attempt  to  break  them  up. 


DEATH. 

Death  opens  the  gate  of  fame,  and  shuts  the  gate 
of  envy  after  it ;  it  breaks  the  chain  of  the  captive, 
and  puts  the  bondsman's  task  into  another's  hands. 

iSieme. 

A  good  man,  when  dying,  said,  "  Formerly  death 
appeared  to  me  like  a  wide  river,  but  now  it  has 
dwindled  to  a  little  rill ;  and  my  comforts  which 
were  once  as  the  rill,  have  become  the  deep  and 
broad  river." 

Death,  to  a  good  man,  is  but  passing  through  a 
dark  entry,  out  of  one  little  room  of  his  father's 
house,  into  another  which  is  fair  and  spacious,  light- 
some and  glorious,  and  divinely  entertaining. 

Clarke. 

Those  born  once  only,  die  twice — they  die  a  tem- 
poral and  an  eternal  death.  But  those  who  are 
born  twice,  die  only  once ;  for  over  them  the  second 
death  hath  no  power. — Jay. 

The  solemn  recollection  of  death,  is  the  very  best 
preservative  from  vice  and  error. — Mrs.  Cutter. 


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It  is  no  small  reproach  to  a  Christian,  whose  faith 
is  in  immortality  and  the  blessedness  of  another  life, 
much  to  fear  death,  which  is  the  necessary  passage 
thereto. — Sir  H.  Vatie. 

There  is  but  this  difference  between  the  death 
of  the  old  and  the  young ;  the  old  go  to  death,  and 
death  comes  to  the  young. 

Death  's  but  a  path  that  must  be  trod, 
If  man  would  ever  pass  to  God. — Parnell. 

Thrice  welcome,  death ! 
That  after  many  a  painful  bleeding  step, 
Conducts  us  to  our  home,  and  lands  us  safe 
On  the  long  wished  for  shore. — Blair. 

The  bad  man's  death  is  horror,  but  the  just 
Does  but  ascend  to  glory  from  the  dust. 

Habhingdon. 

Be  still  prepared  for  death  ;  and  death  or  life 
Shall  thereby  be  the  sweeter. — SkaJcspeare. 

The  king  of  terrors  is  the  prince  of  peace  to  the 
truly  good  man. — Young. 

Ah  !  what  a  sign  it  is  of  evil  life, 

When  death's  approach  is  seen  so  terrible. 

tShakspeare. 

To  the  righteous,  death  is  the  gate  to  endless  joys, 
to  the  unrighteous,  to  endless  banishment  from  the 
presence  of  God  and  his  power. 


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Death  is  the  liberator  of  liim  whom  freedom  can 
not  release  ;  the  physician  of  him  whom  medicine 
can  not  cure ;  and  the  comforter  of  him  whom  time 
can  not  console. — Colton. 

To  those  who  have  run  the  Christian  race,  and 
fought  the  good  fight  of  faith,  death  is  but  the  soul's 
harvest  home. — B.  B.  Adams. 

This  short  life  can  but  little  more  supply, 
Than  just  to  look  around  us  and  to  die. — Pope. 

Death  is  the  dropping  of  the  flower  that  the  fruit 
may  swell. — Renry  Ward  Beecher. 

The  best  school  for  a  good  life,  is  frequent  medi- 
tation upon  a  happy  death. — I\Irs.  E.  Adams. 

As  death  is  inevitable — will  not  relax  nor  give 
back  his  strong  hold,  mortals  huve  to  submit,  and 
fly  to  faith  for  consolation. 

To  die — to  sleep — 
No  more ; — and,  by  a  sleep,  to  say  we  end 
The  heavt-ache,  and  the  thousand  natural  shocks 
That  flesh  is  heir  to, — 'tis  a  consummation 
Devoutly  to  be  wished. — Shakspeare. 

Death  is  the  crown  of  life : 
Were  death  denied,  poor  men  would  live  in  vain; 
Were  death  denied,  to  live  would  not  be  life  ; 
Were  death  denied,  even  fools  would  wish  to  die. 

Young. 


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How  shocking  must  thy  summons  he,  Oh !  death, 
To  him  that  is  at  ease  in  his  possessions ! 
Who,  counting  on  long  years  of  pleasure  here. 
Is  quite  unfurnished  for  the  world  to  come. — Blair. 

Death  is  not  to  the  Christian  what  many  call  it, 
"Paying  the  debt  of  nature."  It  is  not  paying  a 
debt ;  it  is  like  bringing  a  note  to  a  bank  to  obtain 
for  it  gold  and  silver.  You  bring  a  cumbrous  body 
which  is  worth  nothing,  and  which  you  could  not 
wish  to  retain  long ;  you  lay  it  down,  and  receive 
for  it,  from  the  eternal  treasures,  liberty,  victory, 
knowledge  and  rapture. — John  Foster. 

To  the  good  man,  it  is  a  matter  of  congratulation 
that  life  is  fast  passing  away.  What  a  superlatively 
grand  and  consoling  idea  is  that  of  death  !  Without 
this  radiant  idea — this  delightful  morning  star,  indi- 
cating that  the  luminary  of  eternity  is  going  to  rise, 
life  would,  to  my  view,  darken  into  midnight  melan- 
choly. Oh  !  the  expectation  of  living  here  and  living 
thus  always,  would  be  indeed  a  prospect  of  over- 
whelming despair.  But  thanks  to  that  fatal  decree 
that  dooms  us  to  die;  thanks  to  that  gospel  which 
opens  the  visions  of  an  endless  life;  and  thanks 
above  all  to  that  Savior  friend  who  has  promised 
to  conduct  the  faithful  through  the  sacred  trance 
of  death,  into  scenes  of  Paradise  and  everlasting  de- 
light.— John  Foster. 

A  wise  and  due  consideration  of  death,  is  neither 
to  render  us  sad,  melancholly,  disconsolate,  or  unfit 


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for  the  business  and  oflSces  of  life  ;  but  on  the  con- 
trary, to  make  us  more  watchful,  vigilant,  industri- 
ous, sober,  cheerful,  and  thankful  to  God,  who  has 
been  pleased  to  make  us  serviceable  to  him,  comfort- 
able to  ourselves,  and  profitable  to  others ;  and  after 
all  this,  to  remove  the  sting  of  death,  through  Jesus 
Christ  our  Lord. — iSir  M.  Sale. 

To  neglect  at  any  time,  preparation  for  death,  is 
to  sleep  on  our  post  at  a  siege ;  to  omit  it  in  old  age, 
is  to  sleep  in  the  midst  of  an  attack. — Johnson. 

"  As  from  the  wing  no  scar  the  sky  retains, 
The  parted  wave  no  furrow  from  the  keel, 
So  dies  in  human  hearts,  the  thought  of  death." 

We  have  the  promises  of  God  as  thick  as  daisies 
in  summer  meadows,  that  death,  which  men  most 
fear,  shall  be  to  us  the  most  blessed  of  experiences, 
if  we  trust  in  Him. — H.  Ward  Beecher. 

Dr.  Goodwin,  when  dying,  said :  "  Is  this  dying  ? 
Is  this  the  enemy  that  dismayed  me  so  long,  now 
appearing  so  harmless,  and  even  pleasant  ?" 

It  is  by  no  means  a  fact,  that  death  is  the  worst 
of  all  evils ;  when  it  comes,  it  is  an  alleviation  to 
mortals  who  are  worn  out  with  sufferings. 

31etastasio. 

Mount,  mount,  my  soul!  thy  seat  is  up  on  high. 
Whilst  my  gross  flesh  sinks  downward  here  to  die. 

^  Shakspeare, 

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The  death-bed  of  the  devoted,  resigned  Christian, 
is  a  glorious,  favored,  and  happy  place. 
"  The  chamber  where  the  good  man  meets  his  fate. 
Is  privileged  beyond  the  common  walk  of  virtuous  life, 
Quite  on  the  verge  of  heaven." — B.  B.  Adams,  31.1). 

All  that  nature  has  prescribed  must  be  good ;  and 
as  death  is  natural  to  us,  it  is  absurdity  to  fear  it. 
Fear  loses  its  purpose  when  we  are  sure  it  can  not 
preserve  us,  and  we  should  draw  resolution  to  escape 
it. — Steele. 

One  may  live  as  a  conqueror,  a  king,  or  a  magi- 
strate ;  but  he  must  die  as  a  man.  The  bed  of  death 
brings  every  human  being  to  his  pure  individuality ; 
to  the  intense  contemplation  of  that  deepest  and 
most  solemn  of  all  relations,  the  relation  between  the 
creature  and  his  Creator.  Here  it  is  that  fame  and 
renown  can  not  assist  us ;  that  all  external  things 
must  fail  to  aid  us ;  that  even  friends,  aflFection,  and 
human  love  and  devotedness,  can  not  succor  us. 

Webster. 


DEBT. 

Run  not  in  debt.  Be  content  to  want  things  that 
are  not  of  absolute  necessity,  rather  than  incur  debt ; 
for  you  will  pay  in  the  end  a  third  more  than  the 
principal,  and  be  a  perpetual  slave  to  your  creditors; 
live  uncomfortably,  frequently  necessitated  to  in- 
crease your  debts  to  stop  the  mouths  of  creditors ; 
and  many  times  fall  into  desperate  courses. 

mSir  31.  Hale. 


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Running  in  debt  without  a  very  reasonable  pro- 
bability of  paying,  frequently  brings  corroding  sor- 
rows.— Mrs.  R.  Morrell. 

John  Randolpf  said,  "I  have  discovered  the 
philosophers  stone  that  turns  everything  into  gold ; 
it  is  this  :  pay  as  you  go." 

One  of  the  earliest  lessons  of  childhood  and 
youth,  should  be,  caution  in  contracting  debts,  and 
to  live  within  their  income. — Francis  31.  Pitts. 

A  load  of  accumulating  debts  weighs  down  the 
spirits  of  a  man  ;  and  he  can  no  more  enjoy  inde- 
pendent thought  and  feeling,  than  "an  empty  sack 
can  stand  upright." — Todd. 

No  man  can  borrow  himself  out  of  debt.  If  we 
wish  for  relief  under  embarrassed  circumstances,  we 
must  work  and  economize  for  it. 

Lose  not  thy  own  for  want  of  asking  for  it ;  'twill 
get  thee  no  thanks. — Fuller. 


DECEIT. 

Ah,  that  deceit  should  steal  such  gentle  shapes, 
And  with  a  virtuous  vizor  hide  deep  vice ! 

ShaJcsj)eare. 


DESPAIR. 

No  man  need  despair,  until  he  has  lost  his  integ- 
rity, lost  God's  mercy,  and  consequently,  all  hope  of 
heavenly  bldfcedness. — Mrs.  B.  Morrell. 


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Despair  is  the  legitimate  offspring  of  fear,  laziness, 
and  impatience.  It  argues  defect  of  spirit  and  reso- 
lution.— Collier. 

In  all  your  undertakings,  let  a  reasonable  assu- 
rance animate  your  endeavors ;  for  if  you  despair  of 
success,  you  shall  not  succeed. — A.  Campbell. 

I  would  not  despair,  unless  I  saw  my  misfortune 
recorded  in  the  book  of  fate,  and  signed  and  sealed 
by  necessity. — Collier. 

A  few  years  ago,  a  merchant  having  failed  in 
business,  one  day  came  home  in  a  fit  of  despair,  ex- 
claiming, "I  am  ruined;  I  am  beggared;  I  have  lost 
my  all."  "  All,"  said  his  wife,  "  I  am  left."  "All, 
papa,"  said  his  eldest  boy,  "here  am  I."  "And  I 
too,  papa,"  said  his  little  girl,  running  to  him  and 
throwing  her  arms  around  his  neck.  "  Me  not  lost, 
papa,"  said  little  Eddie.  "  And  you  have  your  health 
left,"  said  his  wife.  "  And  your  two  strong  hands 
to  work  with,  papa,"  said  the  eldest,  "  and  I  can 
help  you."  "  And  your  two  feet,  papa,  to  carry 
you  about,"  said  his  little  girl.  "  And  your  two 
eyes  to  see  with,  papa,"  said  little  Eddie.  "  And 
you  have  God's  precious  promises,"  said  grand- 
mother. "  And  a  good  God,"  said  his  wife.  "  And 
a  heaven  to  go  to,"  said  his  little  girl.  "And  Jesus 
to  come  and  fetch  us  there, "said  the  eldest. 

"  God  forgive  me,"  said  the  merchant,  bursting 
into  tears.  "  I  have  not  lost  my  all.  "What  are  the 
few  thousands  which  I  was  so  foolish  asjft  call  my  all, 


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compared  with  these  more  precious  things  which 
God  has  left  me?"  And  he  clasped  his  family  to 
his  bosom,  and  kissed  his  wife  and  children  with  a 
thankful  heart.  Ah,  no,  there  are  many  things 
more  precious  than  gold  and  bank  stocks,  valuable 
as  these  may  be  in  their  proper  place. 

When  the  Central  America  was  foundered  at  sea, 
bags  and  purses  of  gold  were  strewn  about  the  deck, 
as  worthless  as  the  merest  rubbish.  *'  Life,  life !"  was 
the  prayer.  To  some  of  the  wretched  survivors, 
"  water,  water!"  was  the  prayer.  "Bread,  bread!" 
— ^it  was  worth  its  weight  in  gold,  if  gold  could  have 
purchased  it. 

The  loss  of  the  greatest  property  should  not  cloud 
the  mind  with  a  sinful  forgetfulness  of  the  great 
blessings  Avhich  are  left  behind. — Child's  Paper.] 


DIET  — DIETING. 

In  general,  mankind,  since  the  improvement  in 
cookery,  eat  about  twice  as  much  as  nature  requires. 

Franklin. 

Shun  sumptuous  meals,  especially  suppers,  if  you 
value  good  health,  or  dread  sinful  disease. 

Mrs.  H.  Ann  Jones. 

The  refined  luxuries  of  the  table,  besides  enervat- 
ing the  body,  poison  that  very  pleasure  they  are 
intended  ^plromote,  for,  by  soliciting  the  appetite, 


54  BOOK   OF  THOUGHT. 


they  exclude  the  greatest  pleasure  of  taste,  that 
which  arises  from  the  gratification  of  hunger. 
Always  to  indulge  our  appetites  is  to  extinguish 
them. —  Universal  Experience. 

Fashionable  dieting  destroys  more  lives  than  pes- 
tilence, famine  and  the  sword. 

A  little  boy,  whose  mother  had  for  dinner  one  day 
a  pot  pie,  after  having  eaten  very  heartily  of  it, 
clamored  for  more.  She  assured  him  that  he  had 
eaten  sufiiciently ;  but  he  insisted  on  having  more. 
Becoming  vexed,  she  dashed  upon  his  plate  a  con- 
siderable portion,  saying,  "  There,  eat  your  death  !" 

The  smoking,  and  chewing,  and  eating,  and  drink- 
ing of  death,  is  wonderful  to  contemplate. 

Nature  delights  in  the  plainest  and  simplest  diet. 
The  inferior  animals  use  but  one  dish  ;  consequently 
they  have  few  diseases,  and  unless  violently  killed, 
commonly  die  of  old  age.  Herbs  are  the  food  of  one 
species,  flesh  of  another,  seeds  or  grain  of  another, 
and  fish  of  a  fourth ;  but  man,  the  reasoning  being, 
falls  foul  upon  every  thing  which  comes  into  his 
way ;  not  the  smallest  fruit  or  excrescence  of  the 
earth — scarce  a  berry  or  a  mushroom  can  escape 
him.  The  consequence  is,  that  he  is  aflflicted  with 
pains  and  aches,  tetter  and  scrofula,  sores  and  can- 
cers, rheumatism  and  gout,  chills  and  fevers,  and  a 
thousand  and  one  other  disorders,  requiring  an  ex- 
tensive library  to  record  their  names,  iind  describe 


their  peculiarities  and  treatment;  ai^Hbctors  and 


?s^na 
]^Hb( 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  55 


doctresses  enough  to  populate  five  hundred  worlds 
like  this,  if  all  the  rest  of  mankind  were  swept  off  by 
a  flood,  to  keep  the  machinery  in  repair  to  devour 
all  creation ! 

We  have  heard  a  story  told  of  a  lady  who  once 
dined  at  a  table  where  there  was,  among  a  variety 
of  dishes,  that  of  bacon  and  greens.  On  being  asked 
what  she  would  prefer,  she  said  "  Some  of  the  bacon 
and  greens."  She  was,  after  a  time,  furnished  with 
a  clean  plate,  and  the  inquiry  repeated  as  to  her 
preference :  she  said,  "  Some  more  of  the  bacon  and 
greens."  Now,  if  this  lady  did  not  eat  too  much 
of  this  one  dish,  she,  perhaps,  dined  much  more 
wisely  than  any  other  person  at  the  table. 

3Ir8.  H.  N.  Gutter. 

Food,  improperly  taken,  not  only  produces  origi- 
nal diseases,  but  affords  those  already  engendered 
both  matter  and  sustenance ;  so  that,  let  the  father 
of  disease  be  what  it  may,  intemperance  is  certainly 
its  mother. — Burton. 


DISCIPLINE. 

The  teacher  should  acquaint  his  pupils,  and  the 
parent,  his  children,  with  the  important  requirements 
of  his  oflSce ;  and  they  will  honor  and  obey  him  in 
just  proportion  as  he  discharges  those  requirements 
well.         ^ 


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Pupils  never  honor  nor  obey  a  teacher,  nor  sons 
and  daughters,  a  parent,  who,  habitually,  makes  any 
compromise  of  his  own  duties,  as  a  disciplinarian. 

Forty  years  observation  of  a  teacher. 

Discipline  is  the  corner-stone  of  education.  On 
it  is  founded  the  future  character  of  the  pupil,  and 
from  it  is  derived  that  elevation  and  tone  which 
recommends  him  to  the  esteem  of  the  virtuous,  and 
the  favorable  attention  of  the  wise. — Just  so. 

Discipline  commands  the  stubborn  will,  corrects 
the  disposition  of  the  mind,  and  subdues  the  passions ; 
it  rescues  the  mind  from  debasing  influence,  and 
opens  the  way  to  eminence,  in  the  possession  of  a 
manly,  moral  character. — Truth. 

Discipline  is  the  antidote  to  idleness,  and  the  great 
corrector  of  the  vices  in  general. — JExperience. 

All  that  is  excellent  in  education,  has  its  source 
and  spring  in  wise  discipline. — That's  so. 

The  rod  and  reproof  give  wisdom  ;  but  a  child  left 
to  himself,  bringeth  his  mother  to  shame. — Qod. 

Correct  thy  son,  and  he  shall  give  thee  rest ;  yea, 
he  shall  give  delight  unto  thy  soul. — Ciod. 

Had  doting  Priam  checked  his  son's  desire, 
Troy  had  been  bright  with  fame,  and  not  with  fire. 

Shakspeare. 

No  evil  propensity  of  the  human  heart  is  so  pow- 
erful that  it  may  not  be  subdued  by  discipline. 

m^     Seneca, 


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DISCUSSION". 

Whoever  is  afraid  of  submitting  any  question, 
civil  or  religious,  to  the  test  of  free  discussion,  is 
more  in  love  with  his  own  opinion  than  with  truth. 

Bishop  Watson. 


DOCILITY. 
A  docile  disposition  will,  with  proper  application, 
surmount  every  difficulty. — dianlius. 


DRUNKENNESS— TEMPERAI^CE— INTEM- 
PERANCE. 

Wine  is  a  mocker ;  strong  dring  is  laging;  and 
whoever  is  deceived  thereby  is  not  wise. — Solomon. 

Oh  thou  invincible  spirit  of  wine  !  if  thou  hast  no 
name  to  be  known  by,  let  us  call  thee  devil. 

Shakspeare. 

Drunkenness  is  a  flattering  devil,  a  sweet  poison, 
a  pleasant  sin,  which,  whosoever  hath,  hath  not 
himself;  which,  whosoever  doth  commit,  doth  not 
commit  sin,  but  he  himself  is  wholly  sin. 

St.  Augustine. 

Drunkenness  sinks  its  victim,  in  the  sight  of  both 
God  and  thinking  men,  below  the  grade  of  moral,  to 
that  of  bru^  beings. — Mn.  R.  A.  Jones. 


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Drunkenness  strikes  a  blow,  a  deadly  blow,  at  all 
the  capacities  and  sensibilities  of  the  mind. — Smith. 

Doubtless,  drunkenness,  more  than  most  other 
vices,  unfits  the  mind  for  the  cultivation  of  any  plant 
of  virtue. — Jacob  31c  Cord. 

Drunkenness  renders  the  mind  alike  incapable  of 
pious  feelings,  of  social  regard,  and  of  domestic 
aiFections. — Miss  A.  G.  J^.  Morrell. 

The  drunkard's  appetite  may  be  called  a  link,  at 
least,  which  connects  man  to  the  brute  creation. 

When  a  man  flees  to  drunkenness  for  consolation, 
it  is  then  that  he  completes  his  misery. 

B.  B.  Adams.  M.  B. 


It  is  ordained  in  the  eternal  constitution  of  things, 
that  men  of  intemperate  habits  can  not  be  free. 
Their  passions  forge  their  fetters. — J.  A.  Sarrison. 

To  resort  to  drunkenness  for  the  ease  of  a  troubled 
mind,  is  like  attempting  to  cure  melancholly  with 
madness. —  WorWs  Laconics. 

Every  high  and  noble  principle,  every  heaven-born 
virtue,  every  pure  aifection,  becomes  extinguished  in 
the  insane  surrender  of  reason  and  character  to 
drunkenness. — Mrs.  S.  iV.  Cutter. 

No  vices  are  so  diflScult  to  cure,  as  those  in  which 
men  are  apt  to  glory.  Drunkenness  is  a  vice  of  this 
class. — Henry  C.  Smither.  f^ 


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The  drunkard's  mind  becomes,  at  last,  reconciled 
to  its  own  degradation  and  prostration,  and  the  in- 
fluence of  just  motives  is  no  longer  felt  by  it.         D 

3Iis8  Myrtilla  Morrell. 

Some  of  the  domestic  evils  of  drunkenness,  are 
houses  without  windows,  gardens  without  fences, 
fields  without  tillage,  barns  without  roofs,  children 
without  clothing,  principles,  morals,  or  manners. 

Franklin. 

In  the  bottle,  discontent  seeks  for  comfort ;  cow- 
ardice for  courage;  bashfulness  for  confidence;  sad- 
ness, for  joy;  the  cold,  for  warmth;  the  warm  for 
genial  coolness;  and  all  find  ruin. —  World's  Laconics. 

One  of  the  earliest  visible  effects  of  drunkenness 
is,  a  lessening  of  self-respect,  a  consciousness  of  per- 
sonal degradation,  a  conviction  felt  by  its  victim, 
that  he  has  sunk,  or  is  sinking  from  his  proper  rank, 
as  an  intellectual  and  moral  being. 

B.  B.  Adams,  M.  B. 

Drunkards  leave  many  tracks  toward  the  lion's 
den,  but  alas  there  are  few  tracks  markincr  the  re- 
turn  of  any.  It  is  a  danger  from  which  very  few 
ever  make  good  their  retreat. 

Oh  that  men  should  put  an  enemy  into  their 
mouths  to  steal  away  their  brains ;  that  we  should, 
with  joy  and  gaiety,  revel  and  applause,  transform 
ourselves  iifto  beasts. — Shakspeare. 


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All  excess  is  ill ;  but  drunkenness  is  of  the  worst 
sort.  It  spoils  health,  dismounts  the  mind  and  un- 
man's  men.  It  reveals  secrets,  is  quarrelsome, 
lascivious,  impudent,  dangerous  and  mad.  He  that 
is  drunk  is  not  a  man,  because  he  is,  for  so  long, 
void  of  reason,  which  distinguishes  a  man  from  a 
beast. —  Wm.  Penn. 

The  habit  of  using  ardent  spirits  by  men  in  public 
office,  has  produced  more  injury  to  the  public  service, 
and  more  trouble  to  me,  than  any  other  circumstance. 

Thomas  Jefferson. 

T  can  not  drink  on  equal  terms  with  other  men — 
it  costs  them  only  one  day,  but  me  three ;  the  first 
in  sinning,  the  second  in  suffering,  and  the  third  in 
repenting. — Sterne. 

0  madness  to  think  use  of  strongest  wines 
And  strongest  drinks  our  chief  support  of  health. 
When  God  with  these  forbidden  made  choice  to  rear 
His  mighty  champion,  strong  above  compare, 
Whose  drink  was  only  from  the  liquid  brook. 

Milton. 

Temperance  is  a  virtue  without  pride,  and  fortune 
unenvied,  which  gives  its  possessor  vigor  of  frame, 
and  tranquility  of  mind.  It  is  the  best  guardian  of 
youth,  and  support  of  old  age ;  the  precept  of  high 
reason  as  well  as  religion,  and  the  physician  of  the 
soul  as  well  as  the  body;  the  tutelar  goddess  of  health, 
and  universal  medicine  of  life. — Sir  Wm.  Temple. 


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'Tis  to  thy  rules,  oh !  temperance,  we  owe, 
All  pleasures  that  from  health  and  strength  can  flow. 

Chandler. 
Temperance  is  indeed  a  bridle  of  gold ;  and  he 
who  uses  it  rightly  is  more  like  a  god  than  a  man. 

Burton. 

Temperance  puts  wood  on  the  fire,  meal  in  the 
barrel,  flour  in  the  tub,  money  in  the  purse,  credit 
in  the  country,  contentment  in  the  house,  clothes  on 
the  bairns,  vigor  in  the  body,  intelligence  in  the 
brain,  and  spirit  in  the  whole  constitution. 

I>r.  Franklin. 

Temperance,  by  fortifying  the  mind  and  body, 
leads  to  happiness  ;  intemperance,  by  enervating  the 
mind  and  body,  ends  generally,  in  misery. 

Art  of  Thinking. 

Those  who  destroy  a  healthful  constitution  of  body 
by  intemperance,  and  an  irregular  life,  do  as  mani- 
festly kill  themselves,  as  those  who  hang,  or  poison, 
or  drown  themselves. — Sherlock. 

What  's  a  drunken  man  like?  Like  a  drowned 
man,  a  fool,  and  a  madman  :  one  draught  above  heat 
makes  him  a  fool ;  the  second  mads  him  ;  and  a 
third  drowns  him. — Shakspeare. 


EARLY    RISING. 

He  who  rises  late  may  trot  all  day,  and  not  be 
able  to  overtake  his  business  at  night. — Franklin. 


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I  never  knew  any  man  come  to  greatness  and 
eminence,  who  lay  in  bed  of  a  morning. — Swift. 

Few  ever  lived  to  a  great  age,  and  fewer  yet 
ever  became  distinguished,  who  were  not  in  the  habit 
of  early  rising. —  Todd. 

Early  rising  not  only  gives  to  us  more  life  in  the 
same  number  of  years,  but  adds  likewise  to  their 
number;  and  not  only  enables  us  to  enjoy  more 
of  existence  in  the  same  measure  of  time,  but  in- 
creases also  the  measure. — Colton. 


EARNESTNESS— PERSEVERANCE. 

The  grand  secret  of  all  success,  is  earnestness. 
Earnestness  and  truth  commonly  accompany  each 
other. — Common  Observation. 

There  is  no  difficulty  over  which  an  iron  will  can 
not  prevail. — Kossuth. 

There  is  no  impossibility  to  him 

Who  stands  prepared  to  conquer  every  hazard ; 

The  fearful  are  the  failing. — S.  J.  Sale 

Were  we  asked  what  attribute  of  the  mind  most 
impressed  the  minds  ot  others,  or  most  commanded 
fortune,  our  answer  would  be,  "  Earnestness.'"  The 
earnest  man  commonly  wins  for  himself  a  fair  re- 
putation. 


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Great  works  are  performed,  not  by  great  strength, 
but  by  skillful  management  and  perseverance. 

Observation. 

It  is  not  because  things  are  difficult  that  we  dare 
not  encounter  them. — F.  M.  Pitts 

I  can  not  do  it,  never  accomplished  any  thing  at 
all.  I  will  try,  has  often  wrought  the  greatest 
wonders. — Berkeley. 

Energy  and  perseverance  will  do  any  thing  that 
can  be  done  in  this  world,  and  no  talents,  no  cir- 
cumstances, no  opportunities,  will  make  a  two- 
legged  animal  a  man  without  them. — Goethe. 

In  whatsoever  you  engage,  pursue  it  with  a  steadi- 
ness of  purpose,  as  though  you  were  determined 
to  succeed. 

An  enterprise,  when  fairly  once  begun, 
Should  not  be  left  till  all  that  ought  is  won. 

Shakspeare. 

Demosthenes  is  an  immortal  instance  of  perseve- 
rance— the  only  virtue  that  is  crowned.  He  is  a 
complete  illustration  of  Cicero's  remark,  "  That  an 
industrious  perseverance  can  surmount  almost  any 
obstacle. — D.  B.  Adams,  M.  D. 

Perseverance  is  a  Roman  virtue. 
That  wins  each  God-like  act,  and  plucks  success 
Even  from  the  spear-proof  crest  of  rugged  danger. 

Harvard, 


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Bj  the  force  of  his  iron  will — his  earnestness — 
his  perseverance,  General  Jackson  achieved  a  suc- 
cession of  splendid  triumphs,  unequalled  in  the  his- 
tory of  any  other  man  of  his  generation. 


ECONOMY— PROFUSENESS. 

Economy  is  of  itself  a  great  revenue.  Many  men 
become  rich  by  their  sayings,  rather  than  by  their 
gains. — R.  B.  Cutter. 

The  eye  of  the  master  will  do  more  work  than 
both  his  hands.  Not  to  oversee  workmen  is  to  leave 
your  purse  open. — Franklin. 

He  that  murders  a  crown,  destroys  all  that  it 
might  have  produced,  even  scores  of  pounds. 

Franhlin. 

Economy  is  the  parent  of  integrity,  of  liberty, 
and  of  ease  ;  and  the  beauteous  sister  of  temperance, 
of  cheerfulness,  and  health ;  and  profuseness  is  a 
cruel  and  crafty  demon,  that  gradually  involves  her 
folloivers  in  dependence  and  debts;  that  is,  fetters 
them  with  "irons  that  enter  into  their  souls." 

Eawkesworth. 

A  sound  economy  is  a  sound  understanding  brought 
into  action.  Profuseness  can  not  be  accurately  told, 
though  we  are  very  sensible  how  destructive  it  is. 
Economy  on  the  one  hand,  by  which  a  certain  in- 


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come  is  made  to  maintain  a  man  genteelly  ;  and 
profuseness  on  the  other,  by  which,  on  the  same  in- 
come, another  man  lives  shabbily,  can  not  be  defined. 

Johnson. 

Men  talk  in  raptures  of  youth  and  beauty,  wit 
and  spi'ightliness;  but  after  seven  years  of  union, 
not  one  of  them  is  to  be  compared  to  good  family 
management. —  Witherspoon. 

One  dollar  earned  is  worth  ten  borrowed,  and  a 
dollar  saved  is  worth  ten  times  its  amount  in  useless 
notions. —  Wm.  T.  Jones. 

No  gain  is  so  certain  as  that  which  arises  from 
the  economical  use  of  what  you  have. 

From  the  Latin. 

He  that  buys  what  he  does  not  need,  will  soon 
need  what  he  can  not  buv. — Colton. 


EDUCATION— LEARNING— KNOWLEDGE- 
INSTRUCTION. 
Education  begins  with  life.  Before  we  are  aware 
of  it,  the  foundations  of  character  are  permanently 
laid,  and  subsequent  teaching  avails  but  little  to 
remove  or  alter  them. — Berkeley. 

Education  consists  in  the  formation  of  character. 

He  that  refuseth  instruction,  despiseth  his  own 

soul. — Solomon. 
(8) 


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Correct   education   dissipates    the    myriad   evils 
'  ignorance 
civilized  life 


of  ignorance,  and  distinguishes  between  savage  and 


Undirected  by  virtue,  knowledge  is  but  the  ser- 
vant of  vice. 

Education  is  awakening  a  love  for  truth  ;  giving 
a  just  sense  of  duty ;  opening  the  eyes  of  the  blind 
to  the  great  purpose  and  end  of  life. — Berkeley 

Without  proper  moral  training,  it  is  unsafe  to  give 
youth  knowledge.  "  Knowledge  is  power,"  and 
knowledge  without  principle  to  regulate  it,  may 
make  a  man  a  powerful  villain. —  WorlcCs  Laconics. 

All  other  knowledge  is  hurtful  to  him  who  has 
not  the  science  of  honesty  and  good  nature. 

Montaigne. 

Duty  is  the  only  true  basis  of  education  ;  virtue, 
usefulness,  and  happiness,  its  great  ends. — Grimke. 

Unless  the  vessel  be  pure,  whatever  you  put  into 
it  will  turn  sour.  If  the  young  mind  be  not  duly 
prepared,  all  after  instructions  are  thrown  away 

Horace. 

The  real  object  of  education  is  to  give  children 
and  youth  resources  that  will  endure  as  long  as  life ; 
habits  that  time  will  ameliorate,  not  destroy ;  occu- 
pations that  will  render  sickness  tolerable,  solitude 
pleasant,  age  venerable,  life  more  dignified  and 
useful,  and  death  less  terrible. — Sidney  Smith. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  67 


The  end  of  all  learning  is  to  know  God,  and  out 
of  that  knowledge  to  love  and  serve  him,  and  to  im- 
itate him  as  we  may  the  nearest,  by  possessing  our 
souls  with  true  virtue. — Milton. 

In  casting  about  for  the  means  of  opposing  the 
sensual,  selfish,  and  mercenary  tendencies  of  our 
nature,  and  so  elevating  man,  as  to  render  it  not 
chimerical  to  expect  from  him  the  safe  ordering 
of  his  steps,  no  mere  human  agency  can  be  com- 
pared with  the  resources  laid  up  in  the  great  treasure 
house  of  literature. — Ja.  A.  Millhouse. 

The  largest  property  may  be  wrested  from  a 
child,  but  a  virtuous  education  never. 

-«  Harriet  Newell  Cutter. 

An  investment  in  knowledge  always  pays  the  best 
interest. — Franklin. 

An  industrious  and  virtuous  education  of  children, 
is  a  better  inheritence  for  them  than  a  great 
estate. — Addison. 

Education  is  a  better  safeguard  of  liberty  than  a 
standing  army. — Eve^'ett. 

Education  is  that  process  which  developes  and 
improves  the  powers  of  the  soul  and  body. 

Mrs.  H.  N.  Cutter. 

Learning  is  the  only  thing  that  can  render  old 
age  cheerful,  agreeable,  and  happy. 


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I  call,  therefore,  a  complete  and  generous  educa- 
tion, that  which  fits  a  man  to  perform  justly,  skill- 
fully, and  magnanimously,  all  the  offices  both  private 
and  public,  of  peace  and  \iar.— Milton. 

Learning,  if  rightly  applied,  makes  a  young  prX 
son  thoughtful,  attentive,  industrious,  confident  and 
wary;  and   an   aged   person   cheerful,   useful   and 
happy. — Palmer. 

Learning  is  wealth  to  the  poor,  an  honor  to  the 
rich,  an  aid  to  the  young,  and  a  support  and  com- 
fort to  the  old. — Berkeley. 

No  state  can  be  more  destitute  than  that  of  a 
person,  who,  when  the  delights  of  sense  forsake 
him,  has  no  mental  pleasures. — Burgh. 

To  proper  education  we  may  safely  look  for  man's 
highest  and  most  enduring  joys,  and  for  the  per- 
manent elevation  of  the  human  race. 

Learning  is  a  real  ornament  in  prosperity,  a  real 
refuge  in  adversity,  and  a  useful  and  innocent  enter- 
tainment at  all  times ;  it  cheers  in  solitude  and 
gives  moderation  and  wisdom  in  all  circumstances. 

Palmer. 

Mental  pleasures,  which  are  the  result  of  correct 
eflucation,  never  cloy.  Unlike  those  of  the  body, 
they  are  increased  by  repetition,  approved  by  re- 
flection, and  strengthened  by  enjoyment. — Colton. 


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Knowledge  is  real  wealth  ;  an  inheritance  which 
no  prodigality  can  dissipate  ;  a  safeguard  to  our 
liberties,  and  a  glory  to  our  republic. 

The  aim  of  education  should  be  to  teach  rather 
Jioiv  to  think  than  what  to  think  :  rather  to  improve 
our  minds*  so  as  to  enable  us  to  think  for  ourselves, 
than  to  load  the  mind  with  the  thoughts  of  others. 

Beattie. 

Education  is  the  only  ladder  by  which  mankind 
can  ascend  from  barbarism  to  civilization ;  from 
ignorance  to  knowledge ;  from  darkness  to  light ; 
from  earth  to  heaven. — Samuel  G.  Croodrich. 

Civilization,  which  is  the  legitimate  result  of  know- 
ledge and  profound  thought,  can  neither  be  appre- 
ciated nor  enjoyed  by  the  rude  and  unlettered. 

Education  begins  the  gentleman,  but  reading, 
good  company,  and  education  must  finish  him. 

Locke. 

We  should  spare  no  pains  in  teaching  our  children 
self-government. — Mrs.  Hester  Ann  Jones. 

The  man  who  knows  no  higher  use  of  his  mind 
than  to  invent  and  slave  for  his  body,  is  but  little 
above  the  brute. — Berkeley. 

Of  all  knowledge. 
The  wise  and  good  seek  most  to  know  themselves. 

Shakspeare. 


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We  all  have  two  educations,  one  of  which  wo 
receive  from  others  ;  and  the  other,  and  the  most 
valuable,  which  we  give  ourselves.  It  is  this  last 
which  fixes  our  grade  in  society,  and  eventually,  our 
actual  condition  in  this  life,  and  the  color  of  our  fate 
hereafter.  All  the  professors  and  teachers  in  the 
world  would  not  make  you  a  wise  or  goodauan  with- 
out your  own  co-operation. 

John  Randol-ph  to  his  Nepheiv. 

In  the  matter  of  education,  knowledge  is  not  suffi- 
cient. It  is,  indeed,  power;  but  if  unsanctified, 
power  for  evil  as  well  as  good.  Knowledge  did  not 
teach  Charlemagne  to  sacrifice  his  own  desires  to 
the  happiness  of  any  living  creature.  It  did  not 
make  Augustus  respect  the  life  of  Cicero,  nor  the 
pupil  of  Aristotle  restrain  his  passions.  Know- 
ledge, if  undirected  by  virtue,  is  but  the  servant 
of  vice,  and  therefore  a  dangerous  thing. — BerheUy. 

The  creator  has  so  constituted  the  human  intellect, 
that  it  can  only  grow  and  strengthen  by  its  own  ac- 
tion. The  mind  of  every  student  should  be  imbued 
with  the  spirit  of  activity  and  liberal  inquiry,  so 
that  he  will  gladly  avail  himself  of  every  opportunity 
for  self  cultivation. — Daniel  Webster. 

Base  minded  they  that  want  intelligence. 
For  God  himself  for  wisdom  most  is  praised. 
And  men  to  God  thereby  are  nighest  raised. 

Spencer. 


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He  that  would  make  real  progress  in  knowledge, 
must  dedicate  his  age  as  well  as  youth,  the  latter 
growth  as  well  as  the  first  fruits,  at  the  altar 
of  truth. — Berkeley. 

As  every  parent  wishes  his  offspring  to  be,  so  it  is. 
The  minds  of  children  are  of  so  plastic  a  nature,  that 
if  they  do  not  answer  the  hopes  of  the  parent,  it  is 
in  most  instances,  attributable  to  neglect,  or  defect 
of  education. — Terrence. 

I  attribute  the  little  I  know,  to  my  not  having 
been  ashamed  to  ask  for  information. — Dr.  Locke. 

The  grand  Sultan  knows  that  despotism  is  founded 
on  the  blindness  and  weakness  of  the  governed ; 
but  that  learning  is  light  and  power  ;  and  that  the 
powerful  and  enlightened  make  very  troublesome 
slaves  ;  therefore  he  discourages  learning. — Colton. 

If  those  who  are  striving  and  toiling  for  wealth 
for  their  children,  would  but  take  half  the  pains  to 
secure  for  them  a  virtuous  and  liberal  education, 
how  much  more  rationally  would  they  act. 

Mrs.  B.  MorrelL 

Do  not  press  young  children  into  book  learning ; 
but  teach  them  politeness,  including  the  whole  cir- 
cle of  charities,which  spring  from  the  consciousness 
of  what  is  due  to  their  fellow  beings. — Spurzheim. 

The  study  of  mathematics  cultivates  the  reason ; 
that  of  the  languages,  at  the  same  time,  the  reason 


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and  the  taste.  The  former  gives  power  to  the  mind, 
the  latter,  both  power  and  flexibility.  The  former, 
by  itself,  Avould  prepare  us  for  a  state  of  certainties 
which  no  where  exists ;  the  latter,  for  a  state  of  pro- 
babilities, which  is  that  of  common  life.  Each,  by 
itself,  does  but  an  imperfect  work ;  in  the  union 
of  both,  is  the  best  discipline  for  the  mind,  and  the 
best  training  for  the  world  as  it  is. — Berkeley. 

A  knowledge  of  the  laws  of  our  country,  is  highly 
useful,  and  even  an  essential  part  of  a  liberal  and 
polite  education. 

Learning  is  like  mercury,  one  of  the  most  power- 
ful and  excellent  things  in  the  world  in  skillful  hands ; 
in  unskillful,  the  most  mischievous. — Pope. 

A  little  learning  is  a  dangerous  thing  ! 
Drink  deep,  or  taste  not  the  pierian  spring : 
There,  shallow  drafts  intoxicate  the  brain, 
And  drinking  largely  sobers  us  again. — Pope. 

A  little  smattering  of  learning  tends  to  intoxicate 
the  mind,  without  amounting  to  inspiration  ;  and  is, 
therefore,  a  dangerous  thing. 

The  half  learned  are  more  dangerous  than  the 
simpleton. — Page. 

A  little  philosophy  inclines  men's  minds  to  athe- 
ism ;  but  depth  in  philosophy  brings  men's  minds  to 
religion. — Lord  Bacon. 


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The  education  of  our  children  is  never  out  of  my 
mind.  Train  them  to  virtue,  habituate  them  to  in- 
dustry, activity  and  spirit.  Make  them  consider 
every  vice  as  shameful  and  unmanly.  Fire  them 
with  ambition  to  be  useful.  Make  them  disdain  to 
be  destitute  of  any  useful  knowledge. 

John  Adams  to  his  wife. 

We  must  educate  the  masses,  or  we  must,  as  a 
government,  perish  by  our  own  prosperity. 

Let  the  ignorant  learn,  and  let  the  learned  im- 
prove their  recollection. — Miss  Myrtilla  Morrell. 

We  hail  the  march  of  intellect,  because  we  know, 
that  cultivated  reason,  is  the  grand  support  of  a 
religion  that  is  pure  and  peaceable. 

As  nothing  is  more  mischievous  than  a  man  that 
is  half  intoxicated,  so  nothing  is  more  dangerous 
than  a  mind  that  is  half  informed.  Nothing  is  more 
turbulent  and  unmanageable  than  a  half  enlightened 
population.  Nothing  is  more  terrible  than  active 
ignorance.  It  is  this  semi-scientific  description  of 
intellect,  which  has  organized  those  bold  attacks, 
made  upon  Christianity. — Facts. 

I  consider  the  human  soul,  without  education,  like 
marble  in  the  quarry,  which  shows  none  of  its  inher- 
ent beauties,  till  the  skill  of  the  polisher  brings  out 
the  colors,  makes  the  surface  shine,  and  discovers 
every  ornamental  cloud,  spot,  and  vein,  that  runs 
through  the  body  of  it. — Spectator. 

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Education  is  the  great  light  of  the  age,  and  to 
extinguish  that  light,  would  produce  a  darkness  in  the 
moral  world,  like  that  which  the  annihilation  of  the 
sun  would  make  in  the  material  world ;  while  every 
effort  made  to  advance  or  promote  it,  is  like  remov- 
ing a  dense  cloud  from  the  sky,  and  giving  free  pas- 
sage to  the  light  which  illumines  all  nature. — Everett. 

"When  the  light  of  knowledge  irradiates  the  mind, 
by  contrast  we  are  enabled  to  realize  our  ignorance." 

Knowledge  does  not  comprise  all  which  is  con- 
tained in  the  large  term  education.  The  feelings  are 
to  be  disciplined,  the  passions  are  to  be  restrained; 
true  and  worthy  motives  are  to  be  inspired ;  a  pro- 
found religious  feeling  is  to  be  instilled,  and  pure 
morality  inculcated  under  all  circumstances.  All 
this  is  comprised  in  education. —  Webster. 

Promote,  as  an  object  of  primary  importance,  insti- 
tutions for  the  general  diffusion  of  knowledge.  In 
proportion  as  the  structure  of  a  government  gives 
force  to  public  opinion,  it  should  be  enlightened. 

Washington. 


ENVY. 

A  man  who  has  no  virtue  himself,  ever  envies  the 
virtue  of  others ;  for  men's  minds  either  feed  upon 
their  own  good,  or  upon  other's  evils. — Lord  Bacon, 


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Envy,  if  surrounded  on  all  sides  by  the  brightness 
of  another's  prosperity,  like  the  scorpion  confined 
within  a  circle  of  fire,  will  sting  itself  to  death. 

Colton. 

Envy  sets  the  strongest  seal  on  desert.  If  a  man 
have  no  enemies  I  should  esteem  his  fortune  most 
wretched. — Ben  Johnson. 

If  we  did  but  know  how  little  some  enjoy  of  the 
great  things  that  they  possess,  there  would  be  but 
little  envy  in  the  world. — Young. 

Whoever  feels  pain  in  hearing  a  good  character 
of  his  neighbor,  will  feel  pleasure  in  the  reverse. 
And  those  who  despair  to  rise  in  distinction  by  their 
virtues,  are  happy  if  others  can  be  depressed  to  a 
level  with  themselves. — Franklin. 

Envy  and  cavil  are  the  natural  fruits  of  laziness 
and  ignorance  ;  which  is  probably  the  reason,  that  in 
the  heathen  mythology,  Momus  is  said  to  be  the  son 
of  Nox,  and  Somnus  of  darkness  and  sleep. 

Addison. 

Men  of  noble  birth  are  noted  to  be  envious  toward 
new  men  when  they  arise ;  for  the  distance  is  altered ; 
and  it  is  like  a  deceit  of  the  eye,  that  when  others 
come  on  they  think  themselves  go  back. — Lord  Bacon, 

Envy  keeps  all  sorts  of  company,  and  wriggles 
itself  into  the  liking  of  the  most  contrary  natures 
and  dispositions,  and  yet  carries  so  much  venom  and 


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poison  with  it,  that  it  alienates  the  affections  from 
heaven,  and  raises  rebellion  against  God  himself. 
Hence  it  is.  worth  our  utmost  care  to  watch  it  in  all 
its  disguises  and  approaches,  that  we  may  discover 
it  in  its  first  entrance,  and  dislodge  it  before  it  pro- 
cures a  shelter  or  retiring  place  to  lodge  and  conceal 
itself. — Clareiidon. 

Whatever  depresses  immoderate  wishes,  will,  at 
the  same  time,  set  the  heart  free  from  the  corrosion 
of  envy,  and  exempt  us  from  that  vice,  which  is,  above 
most  others,  tormenting  to  ourselves,  hateful  to  the 
world,  and  productive  of  mean  artifices  and  sordid 
projects. — Johnson. 

Envy  is  a  weed  that  grows  in  all  soils  and  cli- 
mates, and  is  no  less  luxuriant  in  the  country,  than 
in  the  court ;  is  not  confined  to  any  rank  of  men  or 
extent  of  fortune,  but  rages  in  the  breasts  of  all 
degrees. — Clarendon. 

If  envy,  like  anger,  did  not  burn  itself  in  its  own 
fire,  and  consume  and  destroy  those  persons  it  pos- 
sesses, before  it  can  destroy  those  persons  it  wishes 
most  to,  it  would  set  the  world  on  fire,  and  leave  the 
most  excellent  persons  the  most  miserable. 

Lord  Clarendon. 

Base  envy  withers  at  another's  joy 

And  hates  the  excellence  it  can  not  reach 

Thom'£8on. 


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Envy  is  blind,  and  she  has  no  other  quality  than 
that  of  detracting  from  virtue. — Levy. 

The  Sicilian  tyrants  never  devised  a  greater  pun- 
ishment than  envy  is  to  him  who  is  actuated  by  it. 

The  praise  of  the  envious  is  far  less  creditable  than 
their  censure  ;  they  praise  only  that  which  they  can 
surpass,  but  that  which  surpasses  them,  they  censure. 

Colton. 

Envy  flames  highest  against  one  of  the  same  rank 
and  condition. — Old  Writer. 

If  envious  people  were  to  ask  themselves,  whether 
they  would  exchange  their  entire  situations  with  the 
persons  envied,  (I  mean  their  minds,  passions,  notions, 
as  well  as  their  persons,  fortunes,  dignities,  &c.,) — 
I  presume  the  self-love  common  to  human  nature, 
would  generally  make  them  prefer  their  own  condi- 
tion.— Shenstone. 

It  is  envy's  work  to  spy  out  blemishes  that  she 
may  lower  another  by  defeat. — 3Irs.  H.  Ann  Jones, 


ETERNITY. 

Oh !  Eternity,  eternity,  how  are  our  boldest  and 
loftiest  thoughts  lost  and  overwhelmed  in  contem- 
plation of  thee  !  Who  can  set  land-marks  to  bound 
thy  dominions,  or  find  plummets  to  fathom  thy 
depths !  Mathematicians  have  figures  to  compute  all 


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the  progression  of  time ;  astronomers  have  instru- 
ments to  calculate  the  distances  of  the  heavenly 
bodies  ;  but  what  numbers  can  represent,  what  lines 
can  measure  the  length  of  eternity !  "  It  is  higher 
than  heaven;  what  canst  thou  do?  Deeper  than 
hell ;  what  canst  thou  know  ?  The  measure  thereof 
is  longer  than  the  earth  ;  and  broader  than  the  sea  ! 
Mysterious,  mighty  existence !  A  sum  not  to  be 
lessened  by  the  largest  deductions ;  an  extent  not  to 
be  contracted  by  all  possible  diminutions  !  None  can 
truly  say,  after  the  most  prodigious  lapse  of  ages, 
that  so  much  of  eternity  is  gone  !  For,  when  my- 
riads of  centuries  are  elapsed  it  is  but  commencing ; 
and  when  myriads  more  have  run  their  ample  round, 
it  will  be  no  nearer  ending  ! 

Serious  thoughts  of  eternity  are  calculated  to 
prompt  us  to  make  good  use  of  our  allotted  time, 
and  in  a  goodly  measure  to  remove  the  sting  of  death. 

J).  B.  Adams,  M.  J). 

He  that  will  often  put  eternity  and  the  world 
before  him,  and  who  will  dare  to  look  steadfastly  at 
both  of  them,  will  find  that  the  oftener  he  contem- 
plates them,  the  former  will  grow  greater,  and  the 
latter  less. — Oolton. 


EVIL. 

The  greatest  curse  that  can  befall  a  vile  man  is, 
to  behold  the  beauty  of  virtue,  and  pine  at  having 
forsaken  her  paths,  for  the  ways  of  evil. — Juvenal. 


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The  course  of  evil 

Begins  so  slowly,  and  from  such  slight  source, 
An  infant's  hand  might  stem  the  breach  with  clay; 
But  let  the  stream  get  deeper,  and  philosophy, 
Aye,  religion  too,  shall  strive  in  vain 
To  stem  the  headlong  current. — Lacon. 

Our  sins,  like  to  our  shadows, 
When  our  day  is  in  its  glory,  scarce  appear ; 
Towards  our  evening,  how  great  and  monstrous! 

Suckling. 

We  never  do  evil  so  thoroughly  and  heartily  as 
when  lead  to  it  by  the  convictions  of  an  honest,  but 
perverted,  because  mistaken  conscience. 

T.  Edwards. 

Fools  suffer  themselves  to  be  tormented  by  the 
remembrance  of  past  evils. — Cicero 

As  there  is  a  law  of  continuity,  whereby  in  as- 
cending we  can  only  mount  step  by  step,  so  is  there 
a  law  of  continuity,  whereby  they  who  descend  must 
sink,  and  that  too  with  an  ever  increasing  velocity. 
No  propagation  or  multiplication  is  more  rapid  than 
that  of  evil,  unless  it  be  checked  ;  no  growth  more 
certain.  "  He  who  is  in  for  a  penny,"  to  take 
another  expression  belonging  to  the  same  family, 
if  he  does  not  resolutely  fly,  *'  will  find  he  is  in  for 
a  pound." — Great  Truths. 


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Seneca  says,  "  The  way  to  wickedness  is  through 
wickedness.  The  perpetration  of  one  crime  gener- 
ally leads  to  the  commission  of  another."  The  per- 
petration of  a  smaller  crime  generally  leads  to  the 
commission  of  a  greater. 

"  Many  have  puzzled  themselves,"  says  Mr.  New- 
ton, "  about  the  origin  of  evil ;  I  observe  there  is 
evil,  and  that  there  is  a  way  to  escape  it;  and  with 
this  I  begin  and  end." 


EVIL    SPEAKING. 

Never  speak  ill  of  any  one,  but  far  less  in  his 
absence,  than  in  his  presence.  Nothing  is  more  un- 
worthy of  a  man  of  honor  than  evil-speaking  ;  it  is 
so  far  from  maintaining  peace  among  mankind, 
which  ought  to  be  the  chief  end  of  society,  that  it 
keeps  a  man  in  continual  broils  with  the  whole 
world. — Common  observation. 

They  who  are  always  speaking  ill  of  others,  are 
also  very  apt  to  be  doing  ill  to  them. — Sharpe. 

Speak  not  evil  one  of  another,  brethren. 

James  iv.,  11. 

I  thank  and  bless  God  that  for  the  last  fifteen 
years,  I  have  not  given  any  man's  credit  a  thrust 
behind  his  back. — Robert  Fleming 


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FAITH. 
That  state  of  mind  in  -which  man   is   impressed 
with  invisible  things,  is  faith.     It  is  the  use  of  the 
mind  and  soul  power,  in  distinction  from  the  body 
power. — R.  Ward  Beecher. 

Faith  lights  us  through  the  dark  to  Deity  : 
Faith  builds  a  bridge  across  the  gulf  of  death. 

Young. 

Faith  is  the  only  thing  that  can  make  its  posses- 
sor willing  to  leave  this  world,  for  one  which  has 
never  been  visited  by  us. — Mrs.  S.  N.  Cutter. 

Now  faith  is  the  substance  of  things  hoped  for, 
the  evidence  of  things  not  seen. — Heh.  ii.,  1. 


FALL    OF    NATIONS. 

In  the  youth  of  a  State,  arms  do  flourish;  in  the 
middle  age  of  a  State,  learning;  and  then  both 
of  them  together  for  a  time ;  in  the  declining  age 
of  a  State,  mechanical  arts  and  merchandise. 

Bacon. 
There  is  the  moral  of  all  human  tales ; 
'Tis  but  the  same  rehearsal  of  the  past, 
First  freedom,  and  then  glory — when  that  fails, 
Wealth,  vice,  corruption — barbarism  at  last. 
And  history  with  all  her  volumes  vast. 
Hath  but  one  page. — Byron. 


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FILIAL    DUTY. 

There  is  no  other  virtue  "which  adds  so  noble  a 
charm  to  the  finest  traits  of  beauty,  as  that  which 
exerts  itself  in  watching  over  the  tranquility  of  an 
aged  parent.  There  are  no  tears  that  give  so  rich 
and  sweet  a  luster  to  the  cheek  of  innocence,  as  the 
tears  of  filial  sorrow. — St.  Julian. 

A  NOBLE  Instance.  One  of  the  Roman  judges  had 
given  up  to  the  Triumvir  a  woman  of  some  rank, 
condemned  for  a  capital  crime,  to  be  executed  in 
the  prison.  He  who  had  the  charge  of  the  execu- 
tion, in  consideration  of  her  birth,  did  not  imme- 
diately put  her  to  death.  He  concluded  to  avoid 
the  severity  of  putting  a  woman  of  quality  to  a 
violent  death,  by  withholding  all  sustenance,  suppos- 
ing that,  in  a  few  days,  she  must  perish.  He 
sufiered  her  daughter  to  visit  her  daily,  carefully 
searching  her,  however,  as  she  entered,  lest  she 
should  take  with  her  any  nourishment.  A  number 
of  days  having  passed,  the  Triumvir  began  to  wonder 
that  the  should  live  so  long.  Watching,  therefore, 
what  passed  in  the  interview  between  them,  he 
found,  to  his  utter  astonishment,  that  the  life  of  the 
inother  had  been,  all  this  time,  sustained  by  the 
milk  of  the  daughter,  who  every  day  gave  her  her 
breasts  to  suck.  This  being  presented  to  the  judges, 
procured  a  pardon  for  the  mother.  Nor  was  it 
thought  sufficient  to  give,  to  so  dutiful  a  child,  the 
forfeited  life  of  her  condemned  mother,  but  a  pen- 
sion, for  their  support,  was  settled  on  them  for  life ; 


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and  the  ground  upon  which  the  prison  stood,  was 
consecrated,  and  a  temple  built,  to  filial  piety, 
upon  it. 

Duty  to  parents  is  the  first  law  of  nature. 

Despise  not  thy  mother  when  she  is  old. 

Proverbs  xxiii.,  22. 

The  pious  Hooker  used  to  say  that  if  he  had  no 
other  motive  for  being  religious,  he  would  earnestly 
strive  to  be  so  for  the  sake  of  his  aged  mother,  that 
he  might  requite  her  care  of  him,  and  cause  the 
widow's  heart  to  sing  for  joy. — Rev.  John  Allen. 


FORESIGHT. 

Accustom  yourself  to  submit  on  all  and  every 
occasion,  and  on  the  most  minute,  no  less  than  on 
the  most  important  circumstances  of  life,  to  a  small 
present  evil,  to  obtain  a  greater  distant  good.  This 
will  give  decision,  tone,  and  energy  to  the  mind, 
which,  thus  disciplined,  will  often  reap  victory  from 
defeat,  and  honor  from  repulse. — Colton. 

Every  thing  that  looks  to  the  future  elevates 
human  nature  ;  for  never  is  life  so  low,  or  so  little, 
as  when  occupied  with  the  present. — Landon. 


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FORGIVENESS. 

He  that  can  not  forgive  others,  breaks  the  bridge 
over  which  he  must  pass  himself;  for  every  man  has 
need  to  be  forgiven. — Lord  Serhert. 

A  more  glorious  victory  can  not  be  gained  over 
another  man,  than  this:  that  when  the  injury  began 
on  his  part,  the  kindness  should  begin  on  ours. 

Tillotson. 

A  brave  man  thinks  no  one  his  superior  who  does 
him  an  injury ;  for  he  has  it  then  in  his  power  to  make 
himself  superior  to  the  other  by  forgiving  it. — Pope. 

It  is  hard  for  a  haughty  man  ever  to  forgive  one 
who  has  caught  him  in  a  fault,  and  whom  he  knows 
has  reason  to  complain  of  him ;  his  resentment  never 
subsides  till  he  has  regained  the  advantage  lost,  and 
found  means  to  make  the  other  do  him  equal  wrong. 

Bmiyere. 

It  is  a  good  rule  to  admit  of  an  easy  reconcilia- 
tion with  a  person  whose  offence  proceeds  not  from 
depravity  of  heart ;  but  when  sure  that  it  does  thus 
proceed,  to  forego,  for  our  own  sake,  all  opportuni- 
ties of  revenge ;  to  forget  our  enemies  as  far  as  pos- 
sible, and  instead,  call  to  remembrance,  the  more 
pleasing  idea  of  our  friends. 

There  is  a  manner  of  forgiveness  so  divine,  that 
we  are  ready  to  embrace  the  offender  for  having 
called  it  forth. — Lavater 


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Kneel  not  to  me  : 
The  power  that  I  have  on  you,  is  to  spare  you ; 
The  malice  toward  you,  to  forgive  you ;  live 
And  deal  with  others  better. — Shakspeure. 


FRANKNESS  — CANDOR. 

The  habitual  practice  of  frankness  gives  trans- 
parency to  the  character,  and  luster  to  the  whole 
life.  And  yet  it  is  an  exceedingly  rare  quality. 
Deception  is  verily  the  order  of  the  day.  It  enters 
into  all  the  affairs  of  life — into  the  workshop,  the 
counting-room,  the  court  room,  and,  in  brief,  every- 
where. As  to  business  transactions,  it  enters  so 
extensively  into  them,  that  modern  traffic  is  looked 
upon  as  a  huge  practical  lie.  So  uncommon,  indeed, 
is  candor,  that  those  who  exhibit  it  are  seldom 
taken  at  their  word.  A  striking  example  is  on  re- 
cord, of  the  famous  Spanish  General  Spinola.  When 
he  passed  through  France,  in  1604,  he  was  invited 
to  partake  of  the  hospitality  of  Henry  IV.  The 
king  asked  him  what  plan  of  operations  -against  the 
Dutch,  in  his  contemplated  campaign,  he  had  resolved 
upon.  Spinola  coolly  and  quietly  explained  the 
whole  of  his  programme  to  the  king.  Henry,  who 
was  in  the  interest  of  the  Dutch,  immediately  wrote 
to  the  Prince  of  Orange,  communicating  all  that 
Spinola  had  stated.  But  at  the  same  time  he  ad- 
vised the  Prince  to  place  no  confidence  in  it,  giving 
it  as  his  opinion  that    Spinola  would  not,  under  the 


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circumstances,  have  disclosed  his  really  intended 
plans.  But  he  had  done  so,  and  he  fulfilled  every 
word  he  had  spoken,  in  the  execution  of  the  plans  of 
his  campaign! 

Spinola,  when  questioned  as  to  his  reasons  for 
such  a  statement,  replied  that  frankness  is  so  rare, 
that  he  knew  the  treacherous  king  would  not  believe 
him. 

The  comment  which  Henry  made  upon  this,  con- 
tains a  valuable  lesson.  "  Others"  said  he,  "  deceive 
me  with  falsehood,  but  Spinola  has  deceived  me 
with  the  truth." 

Frankness  is  the  sign  and  natural  expression  of 
that  most  noble  quality,  truth. — Means  and  Ends. 


FRIENDS  — FRIENDSHIP. 

No  other  blessing  of  life  is  any  way  comparable 
to  the  enjoyment  of  a  discreet  and  virtuous  friend. 
It  eases  and  unloads  the  mind,  clears  and  improves 
the  understanding,  engenders  thoughts  and  know- 
ledge, animates  virtue  and  good  resolutions,  soothes 
■and  allays  the  passions,  and  finds  employment  for 
most  of  the  vacant  hours  of  life. — Spectator. 

The  various  pleasant  attachments  formed  among 
men  are  but  shadows  of  that  true  friendship,  of 
which  the  sincere  affections  of  the  heart  are  the  sub- 
stance.— Burton. 


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The  qualities  of  your  friends  will  be  those  of  your 
enemies :  cold  friends,  cold  enemies ;  half  friends, 
half  enemies ;  fervid  enemies,  warm  friends. 

Lavater. 

To  be  influenced  by  a  passion  for  the  same  pursuits, 
and  to  have  similar  dislikes,  is  the  rational  ground- 
work of  lasting  friendship. — Sallust. 

We  may  be  sure  that  he  who,  in  private,  tells  us 
of  our  faults,  is  our  friend,  for  he  hazards  our  dislike 
and  hatred.  There  are  few  men  who  can  bear  to  be 
apprised  of  their  faults;  men  almost  universally 
delighting  in  self-praise,  one  of  the  universal  weak- 
nesses of  mankind. 

Of  no  worldly  good  can  the  enjoyment  be  perfect, 
unless  it  be  shared  by  a  friend. — Latin  Proverb. 

Those  who  in  the  common  course  of  the  world  will 
claim  to  be  your  friends  ;  or  whom,  according  to  the 
common  notions  of  friendship,  you  may  probably 
think  such,  will  never  tell  you  of  your  faults,  still 
less  of  your  weaknesses.  But  on  the  contrary,  more 
desirous  to  make  you  their  friend  than  prove  them- 
selves yours,  they  will  flatter  both,  and,  in  truth,  not 
be  sorry  for  either. — Chesterfield. 

A  friend  should  be  one  in  whose  understanding  and 
virtue  we  can  equally  confide,  and  whose  opinion  we 
can  value  at  once  for  its  justness  and  sincerity. 

Berkeley. 


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Friendship  improves  happiness,  and  ahates  misery, 
by  doubling  our  joy,  and  dividing  our  grief. 

Addison. 

Those  friends  are  weak  and  worthless,  who  will 
not  use  the  privilege  of  friendship  in  admonishing 
their  friends  with  freedom  and  confidence,  as  well 
of  their  errors  as  of  their  danger. — Bacon. 

True  friendship  is  like  sound  health,  the  value  of 
it  is  seldom  known  until  it  be  lost. — Colton. 

If  you  have  a  friend  who  loves  you,  who  has 
studied  your  interest  and  happiness ;  be  sure  to 
sustain  him  in  his  adversity. 

Essential  honor  must  be  in  a  friend, 

Not  such  as  every  breath  fans  to  and  fro; 

But  born  within,  is  its  own  judge  and  end, 

And  dares  not  sin,  tho'  sure  that  none  should  know. 

Where  friendship's  spoke,  honesty's  understood; 
For  none  can  be  a  friend  who  is  not  good. 

Cath.  Philips. 

Truth  is  the  only  real,  lasting  foundation  for  friend- 
ship ;  in  all  but  truth  there  is  a  principle  of  decay 
and  dissimulation. — Miss  Edgworth.. 

The  firmest  friendships  have  been  formed  in  mu- 
tual adversity,  as  iron  is  most  strongly  united  by  the 
fiercest  flames. 


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FUTURE    STATE. 

There  is,  I  know  not  how,  in  the  minds  of  men, 
a  certain  presage,  as  it  were,  of  a  future  existence; 
and  this  takes  the  deepest  root,  and  is  the  most  dis- 
coverable, in  the  greatest  geniuses  and  the  most  ex- 
alted souls. — Cicero. 

Why  will  any  man  be  so  impertinently  officious  as 
to  tell  me  all  prospect  of  a  Future  State  is  only 
fancy  and  delusion?  Is  there  any  merit  in  being 
the  messenger  of  ill  news  ?  If  it  is  a  dream,  let  me 
enjoy  it,  since  it  makes  me  both  the  happier  and 
better  man. — Addison. 

Heaven  may  have  happiness  as  utterly  unknown 
to  us,  as  the  gift  of  perfect  vision  would  be  to  a  man 
born  blind. — Colton. 


GAMBLING. 

Gaming  finds  a  man  a  cully,  and  leaves  him  a 
knave. —  Tom  Brown. 

It  is  possible  that  a  wise  and  good  man  may  be 
prevailed  on  to  game ;  but  it  is  impossible  that  a 
professed  gamester  should  be  a  wise  and  good  man. 

Lavater. 

There  is  nothing  that  wears  out  a  fine  face  like 
the  vigils  of  the  card-table,  and  those  cutting  pas- 
sions which   naturally  attend  them ;    and  nothing 
(8) 


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"  sears  a  man's  conscience  as  with  a  hot  iron,"  so 
soon. — Steele. 

I  look  upon  every  man  as  a  suicide  from  the  mo- 
ment he  takes  the  dice-box  desperately  into  his  hand, 
and  all  that  follows  in  his  career  from  that  fatal 
hour,  is  only  sharpening  the  dagger  before  he  strikes 
it  to  his  heart. — Cumberland. 

Gaming  is  the  legitimate  child  of  avarice,  but  the 
parent  of  prodigality. — Lacon. 

The  gamester,  if  he  dies  a  martyr  to  his  profession, 
is  doubly  ruined.  He  adds  his  soul  to  every  other 
loss,  and  by  the  act  of  suicide,  surrenders  earth  to 
forfeit  heaven. — Colton. 


GENEROSITY. 

A  NOBLE  Instance.  The  English  man  of  war,  Eli- 
zabeth, would  infallibly  have  been  lost  on  the  Florida 
Reefs,  in  the  year  1746,  had  not  Capt.  Edwards  ven- 
tured into  Havana.  War  existed,  and  the  port  be- 
longed to  the  enemey.  "I  come,"  said  the  captain 
to  the  governor,  "  to  deliver  up  my  ship,  my  sailors, 
my  soldiers,  and  myself  into  your  hands;  I  only  ask 
the  lives  of  my  men."  "No,"  said  the  Spanish 
commander,  "  I  will  not  be  guilty  of  so  dishonorable 
an  action.  Had  we  taken  you  in  battle,  in  open 
sea,  or  upon  our  coasts,  your  ship  would  have  been 
ours,  and  you  would  be  our  prisoners.     But  as  you 


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are  driven  by  stress  of  weather,  and  are  come  hither 
for  fear  of  being  cast  away,  I  do,  and  ought  to  forget 
that  my  nation  is  at  war  with  yours.  You  are  men 
and  so  are  we ;  you  are  in  distress  and  have  a  right 
to  our  pity.  You  are  at  liberty  to  unload  and  refit 
your  vessel ;  and  if  you  wish  it,  you  may  trade  in 
this  port,  to  pay  your  expenses ;  you  may  then  de- 
part with  a  pass  to  earry  you  safely  beyond  the 
Bermudas.  If,  after  this,  you  are  taken,  you  will 
be  a  legal  prize ;  but,  at  this  moment,  I  see  in  Eng- 
lishmen, only  strangers,  for  whom  common  human- 
ity claims  oar  assistance. 

One  great  reason  why  men  practice  generosity  so 
little  in  the  world  is,  their  finding  so  little  there. 
Generosity  is  catching ;  and  if  so  many  escape  it, 
it  is  in  a  great  degree  from  the  same  reason  that 
countrymen  escape  the  small-pox, — because  they 
meet  with  no  one  to  give  it  to  them. — Greville. 


GENIUS. 

Genius  is  supposed  to  be  a  power  of  producing 
excellencies  which  are  out  of  reach  of  the  rules  of 
art ;  a  power  which  no  precepts  can  teach,  and 
which  no  industry  can  acquire. — Sir  J.  Reynolds. 

There  is  no  distinguished  genius  altogether  ex- 
empt from  some  infusion  of  madness. — Cicero. 

When  a  true  genius  appears  in  the  world,  you 


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may  know  him  by  this  sign,  that  the  dunces  are  all 
in  confederacy  against  him. — Swift. 

Secondary  men,  men  of  talents,  may  be  mixed 
up,  like  an  apothecary's  prescription,  of  so  many 
grains  of  one  quality,  and  so  many  of  another. 
But  genius  is  one,  individual,  indivisible  ;  like  a  star, 
it  dwells  alone. — Anon. 


GENTLEMAN. 

Gentleman,  is  a  very  expressive  word  in  our  lan- 
guage, a  word  denoting  an  assemblage  of  many  real 
virtues,  and  a  union  of  manners  at  once  pleasing, 
and  commanding  respect. — Charles  Butler. 

The  true  gentleman  is  tender  of  the  feelings  of 
others — ever  on  his  guard,  lest  he  wound  others  un- 
intentionally, much  less  intentionally. 

Miss  M.  Morrell. 

He  who  is  open,  loyal,  true ;  of  humane  and  affable 
demeanor ;  honorable  himself,  and  in  his  judgment 
of  others,  faithful  to  bis  word  as  to  law,  and  faithful 
alike  to  God  and  man — such  a  man  is  a  true  gentle- 
man.— Berkeley. 

To  be  a  gentleman,  is  to  be  a  Christian ;  and  to 
be  a  Christian  is  to  possess  all  graces  and  excellen- 
cies.— D.  B.  Adams,  M.  D. 

A  Christian  is  God  Almighty's  gentleman :  a  gen- 


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tleman  in  the  vulgar,  superficial  way  of  understand- 
ing the  -word,  is  the  Devil's  Christian. — Hare. 

A  gentleman  is  a  Christian  in  spirit  who  will  take 
a  polish.  The  rest  are  but  plated  goods  ;  and  how- 
ever excellent  their  fashion,  rub  them  more  or  less, 
and  the  base  metal  appears  through. —  Walker. 


GOD. 

God  is  a  spirit,  infinite,  eternal,  and  unchangable 
in  his  being,  wisdom,  power,  holiness,  justice,  good- 
ness and  truth. — Confession  of  Faith. 

In  contemplation  of  created  things. 

By  steps  we  may  ascend  to  God. — 3filton, 

There  is  a  God — all  nature  speaks, 

Through  earth,  and  air,  and  sea,  and  skies, 

See  from  the  skies  his  glory  breaks. 

When  the  first  beams  of  morning  rise. — Steele. 

Sing  praise  to  God  !  exalt  his  name  ! 

Prepare  his  way,  who  marcheth  in  the  desert; 

Extol  him  by  his  name  Jahf 

And  exult  before  him. 

The  orphan's  father,  the  widow's  judge, — 

Is  God  exalted  in  holiness. — Herder. 

In  all  his  dispensations,  God  is  at  work  for  our 
good.  In  prosperity  he  tries  our  gratitude ;  in  ad- 
versity, our  contentment ;  in  misfortune,  our  submis- 


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sion  ;  in  darkness,  our  faith ;  under  temptation  our 
steadfastness ;  and  at  all  times,  our  obedience  and 
trust  in  him. — Redwood. 

I  love,  and  have  some  reason  to  love,  the  earth ; 
She  is  my  Maker's  creature  ;  therefore  good : 
She  is  my  mother ;  for  she  gave  me  birth ; 
She  is  my  tender  nurse,  she  gives  me  food; 
But  what's  a  creature.  Lord,  compared  with  thee? 
Or  what's  my  mother,  or  my  nurse  to  me  ? 

Quarles. 

God  should  have  the  same  place  in  our  hearts  that 
he  holds  in  the  universe. —  World's  Laconics. 

Who  guides  below,  and  rules  above, 

The  great  disposer,  and  the  mighty  King ; 

Than  he  none  greater,  next  him  none, 

That  can  be,  is,  or  was  ; 

Supreme  he  singly  fills  the  throne. — Horace. 

What  is  there  in  man  so  worthy  of  honor  and 
reverence  as  this, — that  he  is  capable  of  contemplat- 
ing something  higher  than  his  own  reason,  more 
sublime  than  the  whole  universe ;  that  Spirit  which 
alone  is  self-subsistent,  from  which  all  truth  pro- 
ceeds, without  which  is  no  truth  ? — Jacobi. 

Give  me,  0  Father,  to  thy  throne  access, 
Unshaken  seat  of  endless  happiness  ! — Boethius. 


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GOOD    AND    EVIL. 

Natural  good  is  so  intimately  connected  with 
moral  good,  and  natural  evil  with  moral  evil,  that  I 
am  as  certain  as  if  I  heard  a  voice  from  heaven  pro- 
claim it,  that  God  is  on  the  side  of  virtue.  He  has 
learnt  much,  and  has  not  lived  in  vain,  who  has 
practically  discovered  that  most  strict  and  necessary 
connection,  that  does,  and  will  ever  exist,  between 
vice  and  misery,  and  virtue  and  happiness. — Colton. 

As  there  is  much  beast  and  some  devil  in  man,  so 
is  there  some  angel  and  some  God  in  him.  The 
beast  and  the  devil  may  be  conquered,  but  in  this 
life  never  destroyed. — *S'.  T.  Coleridge. 

It  is  a  proof  of  our  natural  bias  to  evil,  that  gain 
is  slower  and  harder  than  loss,  in  all  thin";s  good : 
but  in  all  things  bad,  getting  is  quicker  and  easier 
than  getting  rid  of. — Sare. 

The  Rabbins  note  a  principle  of  nature,  that  putre- 
faction is  more  dangerous  before  maturity  than  after, 
and  another  noteth  a  position  in  moral  philosophy, 
that  men  abandoned  to  vice  do  not  so  much  corrupt 
manners  as  those  that  are  half  good  and  half  evil. 

Lord  Bacon. 

Good  and  evil,  we  know,  in  the  field  of  this  world, 
grow  up  together  almost  inseparably :  and  the  know- 
ledge of  good  is  so  involved  and  interwoven  with  the 
knowledge  of  evil,  and  in  so  many  cunning  resem- 


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blances  hardly  to  be  discerned,  that  those  confused 
seeds  which  were  imposed  upon  Psyche  as  an  inces- 
sant labor  to  cull  out  and  sort  asunder,  were  not 
more  itermixed.  It  was  from  out  of  the  rind  of  one 
apple  tasted,  that  the  knowledge  of  good  and  evil,  as 
two  twins  cleaving  together,  leaped  forth  into  the 
world. — Milton. 


GOOD.  MANNERS— CIVILITY— PO- 
LITENESS. 

Good  manners  are  the  signs  of  inward  qualities 
of  the  mind,  founded  on  spontaneous  modesty,  self- 
denial,  and  due  respect  for  others. 

Youth  passes  speedily  away,  beauty  soon  decays, 
but  good  manners  are  the  charm  of  every  period  of 
life — the  only  external  charm  that  time  does  not 
impair. — Berkeley. 

The  scholar,  without  good  breeding,  is  a  pedant, 
the  philosopher,  a  cynic  ;  the  soldier,  a  brute  ;  and 
every  man  disagreeable. — Chesterfield. 

Good  breeding  is  the  art  of  showing  others  by 
external  indications,  the  internal  regard  we  have  for 
them. — Cato. 

As  charity  covers  a  multitude  of  sins  before  God, 
so  does  politeness  before  men. — G-reville. 


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"Politeness,"  says  Witherspoon,  "  is  real  kindness 
kindlj  expressed." 

A  man's  own  good  breeding  is  his  best  security 
against  other  people's  ill  manners. — Chesterfield. 

Defect  in  manners  is  usually  defect  of  fine  per- 
ceptions.— Emerson. 

Manners  are  the  outward  expression  of  the  inter- 
nal character.  Harmony  of  being  makes  harmony 
of  expression.  It  is  the  undeveloped  and  discord- 
ant   who  are  crude  and  awkard  in  their  mannera 

Book  of  Politeness. 

Unbecoming  forwardness  oftener  proceeds  from 
ignorance  than  impudence. — Q-reville. 

The  manner  of  saying  or  doing  a  thing  goeg  a 
great  way  in  the  value  of  the  thing  itself. — Lacon. 

There  is  no  policy  like  politeness  ;  and  a  good  man- 
ner is  the  best  thing  in  the  world,  either  to  get  a  good 
name,  or  to  supply  the  want  of  it. — Bulwer. 

Nothing  costs  less,  and  nothing  purchases  so  much, 
as  a  kind,  respectful,  courteous  and  agreeable  treat- 
ment of  others. 

Good  manners  are  merely  the  outward  expression 
o"  good  sense,  good  feelings,  and  good  morals. 

Whistling,  humming  a  tune,  or  drumming  with  the 
fingers  or  feet,  in  company,  is  great  impoliteness. 

Chesterfield. 


98  BOOK   OF  THOUGHT. 


Pride,  ill-nature,  and  want  of  sense,  are  the  three 
great  sources  of  ill-manners. — Swift. 

The  external  grace  and  manners  commonly  cor- 
respond to  the  internal  beauty  of  mind  and  heart. 

Book  of  Manners. 

Next  to  the  consciousness  of  doing  a  good  action, 
that  of  doing  a  civil  one  is  most  pleasing. 

Scott's  Lessons. 

The  manners  of  a  people  are  of  much  greater  im- 
portance than  their  laws.  Upon  them  the  laws  de- 
pend. The  law  touches  but  here  and  there,  now  and 
then;  manners  are  what  vex  or  soothe,  corrupt  or 
purify,  exalt  or  debase,  barbarise  or  refine  us,  by  a 
steady,  constant,  uniform,  insensible  operation,  like 
that  of  the  air  we  breathe  in.  Our  manners  give 
their  whole  form  and  color  to  our  lives.  According 
to  their  quality,  they  aid  morals,  they  supply  them, 
or  they  totally  destroy  them. — Burke. 

Virtue  itself  offends,  when  coupled  with  forbid- 
ding manners. — Bishop  Middleton. 

Undeviating  civility  to  those  of  inferior  stations, 
and  courtesy  to  all,  are  the  emanations  of  a  well  edu- 
cated mind,  and  finely  balanced  feelings. — Sigourney. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  99 


GOSSIPING. 

There  is  a  set  of  malicious,  prating,  prudent  gossips, 
both  male  and  female,  who  murder  characters  to  kill 
time. — Sheridan. 

If  your  mind  be  not  employed  on  higher  and  more 
holy  objects,  you  are  sure  to  gossip  about  your  friends 
and  neighbors. — Home. 

The  gossip  volunteers  to  supervise  all  the  sins, 
follies,  and  shortcomings  of  all  their  neighbors  and 
acquaintance.  Fall  into  the  company  of  a  gossip 
when  you  will,  and  you  may  hear  the  latest  news  of 
every  family  in  the  neighborhood. — Means  and  Ends. 

Gossiping  destroys  much  heaven-bestowed  social 
happiness.  It  is  strange  that  so  many  women  should 
so  dishonor  God's  precious  gift  of  the  tongue,  (a  gift 
somewhat  lavished  on  them,)  should  so  squander 
their  God-given  moments,  and  so  poison  social  life. 

Means  and  Ends. 

What  would  you  think  of  a  person  who  should  go 
about  collecting  for  exhibition  samples  of  the  warts, 
wens,  cancers,  and  sores,  with  which  his  fellow  mor- 
tals are  afflicted.  And  yet,  would  not  his  avocation 
be  more  honorable,  more  humane,  at  least,  than  the 
gossip  mongers  ? — Means  and  Ends. 

Many  whole  families,  as  well  as  many  Individuals, 
make  themselves  common  sewers,  through  which  all 


100  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


the  follies,  foibles,  shortcomings,  and  sins  of  the 
entire  neighborhood  run. 

Thousands  of  men  and  women  there  are,  who  so 
engross  their  time  in  contemplating  and  publishing 
the  faults  of  others,  that  they  never  have  time  to 
consider  their  own  faults. — H.  Ann  Jones. 


GRATITUDE  — INGRATITUDE. 

If  there  be  a  crime 
Of  deeper  dye  than  all  the  guilty  train 
Of  human  vices,  'tis  ingratitude. — Brooke. 

Wherever  I  find  a  great  deal  of  gratitude  in  a 
poor  man,  I  take  it  for  granted  there  would  be  as 
much  generosity  if  he  were  a  rich  man. — Pope. 

A  proud  man  is  seldom  a  grateful  man,  for  he 
never  thinks  he  gets  as  much  as  he  deserves.  When 
any  mercy  falls,  he  says,  "  yes,  but  it  ought  to  be 
more.  It  is  only  manna,  as  large  as  corriander  seed, 
whereas  it  ought  to  be  like  a  baker's  loaf."  How 
base  a  pool  God's  mercies  fall  into,  when  they  splash 
down  into  such  a  heart  as  that ! — S.  Ward  Beecher. 

Gratitude  is  the  homage  the  heart  renders  to  God 
for  his  great  goodness  and  mercy.  Christian  cheer- 
fulness is  the  external  manifestation  of  that  homage. 

He  that  calls  a  man  ungrateful,  sums  up  all  the 
evil  that  a  man  can  be  guilty  of. — Swift. 


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It  is  a  species  of  agreeable  servitude,  to  be  under 
obligation  to  those  we  esteem. — Queen  Christiana. 

He  who  receives  a  good  turn  should  never  forget 
it ;  he  who  does  one,  should  never  remember  it. 

Charron. 

Nothing  more  detestable  does  the  earth  produce 
than  an  ungrateful  man. — Ausonius. 

If  you  say  he  is  ungrateful,  you  can  impute  to  him 
no  more  detestable  act. — From  the  Latin. 


HAPPINESS. 

Know  then  this  truth,  enough  for  man  to  know, 
Virtue  alone  is  happiness  below. — Pope. 

If  happiness  has  not  her  seat  and  center  in  the  breast, 
We  may  be  wise,  or  rich,  or  great,  but  never  can  be 
blessed. — Burns. 

Fixed  to  no  spot  is  happiness  sincere ; 

'Tis  no  where  to  be  found,  or  everywhere. — Pope. 

The  surest  means  of  augmenting  our  own  happi- 
ness, is  by  contributing  systematically  to  that  of 
our  fellow  creatures. — Mrs.  R.  3IorreU. 

All  happiness  of  man  is  derived  from  discovering, 
applying,  or  obeying  the  laws  of  his  Creator;  and 
all  his  misery  is  the  result  of  ignorance  and  diso- 
bedience.—  Wayland. 


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Knowledge  or  wealth  to  few  are  given, 
But  mark  how  just  the  ways  of  heaven, 
True  joj  to  all  is  free. — Michle. 

Mankind  are  always  happier  for  having  been 
happy ;  so  that  if  you  make  them  happy  now,  you 
make  them  happy  many  years  hence,  by  the  memory 
of  it. — Sidney  Smith. 

The  means  immutable  of  happiness, 

Or  in  the  vale  of  life,  or  on  the  throne, 

Is  virtue. — Murphy. 

Men  live  best  on  little — nature  has  granted  to  all 
to  be  happy,  if  the  use  of  her  gifts  were  but  known. 

Claudian. 

To  communicate  happiness  is  worthy  the  ambition 
of  beings  superior  to  man. — Langhorne. 

There  is  very  little  pleasure  or  happiness  in  the 
world  that  is  true,  sincere,  and  lasting,  except  that 
of  good  offices  to  our  fellow  mortals. 

The  chief  secret  of  comfort  and  happiness,  lies 
in  not  suffering  trifles  to  vex  us,  and  in  prudently 
cultivating  an  undergrowth  of  small  pleasures,  since 
very  few  great  onc^s,  alas  !  are  let  on  long  leases. 

Sharpe. 

If  sensuality  be  our  only  happiness,  we  ought  to 
envy  the  brutes ;  for  instinct  is  a  surer,  shorter, 
and  safer  guide  to  such  happiness  than  reason. 

Colton. 


BOOK  OF  THOUOHT.  103 


Noah  and  his  family  were  saved  by  obedience, 
Pharaoh  and  his  host  perished  for  disobedience. 

B.  B.  Cutler. 

Happiness  is  much  less  valued  when  we  possess 
it,  than  when  we  have  lost  it. — Experience. 

A  very  few  men  say  I  was  happy ;  the  most  say 
I  shall  he  happy  ;  very  few  say  I  am  happy. 

That's  so. 

When  we  are  free  from  pain,  sickness,  and  abso- 
lute want,  no  external  change  of  circumstances  can 
make  us  more  happy.  To  ignorance  of  this  truth, 
is  justly  to  be  attributed  that  universal  dissatisfac- 
tion of  mankind. 

Happiness  is  that  single  and  glorious  thing  which 
is  the  very  light  and  sun  of  the  whole  animated  uni- 
verse ;  and  where  she  is  not,  it  were  better  that 
nothing  should  be. — Lacon. 


HISTORY. 

History  is  not  only  a  valuable  part  of  fducation, 
but  it  opens  the  door  to  most  other  parts  of  knowl- 
edge, and  furnishes  materials  for  the  sciences  gener- 
ally. "Indeed,  most  of  what  is  termed  erudition, 
is  but  an  acquaintance  with  historical  facts." 

A  man  well  acquainted  with  history,  may  be  said 
to  have   lived  from   the  very  beginning   of  letters, 


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and  to  have  been  making  continual  additions  to  his 
stock  of  knowledge. — Mrs.  H.  N.  Cutter. 

The  historian  sees  all  the  hnman  race,  from  the 
infancy  of  time,  pass,  as  it  were,  in  review  before 
him,  and  that  in  their  true  colors. 

This  I  hold  to  be  the  chief  office  of  history,  to 
rescue  virtuous  actions  from  the  oblivion  to  which  a 
want  of  records  would  consign  them,  and  that  men 
should  feel  a  dread  of  being  considered  infamous  in 
the  opinions  of  posterity,  from  their  depraved  ex- 
pressions and  base  actions. — Tacitus. 


HOME. 

Home  is,  to  a  well-ordered  mind,  more  attractive 
than  any  other  place. — D.  B,  Adams,  M.  D. 

The  strength  of  a  republican  government,  is  in  the 
well-ordered,  comfortable  homes  of  the  people. 

Sigourney. 

What  a  man  is  at  home,  that  he  is  indeed  ;  if  not 
to  the  world,  yet  to  his  own  conscience  and  to  God. 

Phili'p. 

Withdraw  thy  feet  from  thy  neighbor's  house,  lest 
he  be  weary  of  thee,  and  so  hate  thee. — Prov.  25 :  17. 

The  first  sure  symptoms  of  a  mind  in  health, 
Is  rest  of  heart,  and  pleasure  felt  at  home. 

Young. 


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As  a  bird  that  ■wandercth  from  his  nest,  so  is  a 
man  that  wandereth  from  his  place. — Prov.  27:  8. 

Home,  the  spot  of  earth  supremely  blest, 
A  dearer,  sweeter  spot  than  all  the  rest. 

Montgomeri/. 

Home  is  the  place  of  harmony  and  peace. 
The  spot  where  angels  find  a  resting  place, 
When,  bearing  blessings,  they  descend  to  earth. 

S.  J.  Hale. 

Much  as  we  may  delight  in  other  things,  or  all 
other  things,  we  gladly  turn  from  them  all,  to  seek 
the  deep,  pure  joys  of  home. — 31r8.  S.  iV.  Cutter. 

Home  can  never  be  transferred, — never  repeated 
in  the  experience  of  any.  The  place  consecrated  by 
paternal  love ;  by  the  innocence  and  the  sports  of 
childhood ;  and  by  the  first  acquaintance  of  the 
heart  with  nature,  is  the  only  true  home. 

The  world  has  a  million  of  roosts  for  us,  but  only 
one  nest — home. — 0.  H.  Holmes. 

After  all,  home — "sweet  home,"  is  the  place  for 
comfort,  if  the  affections  of  the  heart  center  there. 

Mm  A.  G.  N.  Morrell. 

Any  feeling  that  takes  a  man  away  from  his  home, 
is  a  traitor  to  the  household. — H.  Ward  BeecJier. 

Home  is  the  magic  circle  within  which  the  weary 
spirit  finds  refuge ;  it  is  the  sacred  asylum  to  which  the 


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care-worn  heart  retreats  to  find  rest  from  the  toils 
and  inquietudes  of  life. — Home  Memories, 

Home  is  the  place  of  confidence,  and  refuge  from 
the  stormy  ocean  of  life. — Mrs.  R.  Morrell. 

At  length  his  lonely  cot  appears  in  view, 

Beneath  the  shelter  of  an  aged  tree ; 
Th'  expectant  wee  things,  todlin,  stacher  thro 

!Co  meet  their  dad,  with  flichterin  noise  an  glee. 
His  wee  bit  ingle  blinkin  bonily, 

His  clean  hearth-stane,  his  thrifty  wifie's  smile, 
The  lisping  infant  prattling  on  his  knee, 

Does  a'  his  weary  kiaugh  and  care  beguile, 
And  makes  him  quite  forget  his  labor  and  his  toil. 

Burns. 


HOME   POLITENESS. 

Surely  family  politeness  strengthens  and  brightens 
all  the  ties  of  social  afiiection  in  the  family. 

The  husband  who  observes  the  courtesies  of  polite- 
ness toward  his  lady  acquaintances,  but  is  in  the 
habit  of  speaking  abruptly  to  his  wife,  is  a  filthy 
hypocrite.  Husbands  there  are,  not  a  few,  who  will 
listen  with  due  deference  to  any  thing  a  lady  ac- 
quaintance, or  even  a  lady  stranger,  may  please  to 
say ;  but  if  the  poor  wife  draw  upon  his  attention,  a 
small  draft,  she  is  heard  with  manifest  impatience,  or 
snubbed  outright.  Does  she  urge  some  reasonable 
request?     "  Oh,"  cries  her  petty  lord  and  master, 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  107 


"  don't  bother  me."  A  lady  acquaintance  calls  upon, 
him  •with  a  request  that  John  take  her  a  buggy  ride 
to  Mr.  so  and  so's.  "  Oh !  with  great  pleasure, 
madam.  John  put  the  new  harness  on  dobin,  hitch 
him  to  the  buggy  and  be  at  the  service  of  this  lady." 
John  must  go,  even  if  he  is  the  milkman,  and  the 
cows  go  unmilked  this  evening. 

Any  thing  an  impolite  husband  wishes  his  wife  to 
do,  he  orders  her  to  do  it.  "  Look  here,  I  want  you 
to  do  so  and  so,  just  see  that  its  done ;"  and  away 
marches  my  lord,  having  a  hypocritical  bow  and 
sweet  looks  for  every  casual  acquaintance  he  may 
chance  to  meet.  He  accidentally  treads  on  the  toe 
of  a  lady  acquaintance, — "  I  beg  pardon,  madam," 
just  as  readily  as  if  it  came  naturally.  Let  him 
tread  on  his  wife's  toe,  however,  and  if  she  cry  with 
pain,  all  her  comfort  is,  "keep  your  toes  out  of  my 
road." — H.  Ann  Jones. 

Depend  upon  it,  kind  words  and  little  kind  attentions 
keep  the  flame  of  family  affection  burning  brightly. 
"  The  children  grow  up  in  a  better  moral  atmosphere, 
and  learn  to  respect  their  parents,  as  they  see  them 
respect  each  other.  Many  a  boy  becomes  saucy  and 
disobedient  to  his  mother,  because  he  so  frequently 
sees  the  rudeness  of  his  father  toward  her.  He  in- 
sensibly imbibes  the  same  habits,  and  the  thoughts 
and  feelings  they  engender,  and  in  his  turn  becomes 
the  petty  tyrant.  Only  his  mother,  why  should  he  be 
polite  to  her  ?     "  Father  never  is,."     Thus  it  is  seen 


108  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


how  home — "  sweet  home,"  becomes  the  seat  of  dis- 
cord and  unhappiness.  Not  to  be  chargeable  with 
partiality ;  we  think  it  looks  even  worse  for  a  wife  to 
be  guilty  of  such  coarse  impoliteness,  than  for  the 
"  rough  pebble."— ilt/r8.  E.  N.  Cutter. 

We  would,  any  time,  join  an  excursion  of  a  hun- 
dred miles,  and  we  should  think  any  respectable 
railroad  company  would  carry  us  at  half  fire,  to  visit 
a  family,  the  father  of  which  politely  requests  his 
wife  to  do  so  and  so,  and  the  wife  heartily  answers : 
"  your  pleasure  my  dear."  The  wife  requests  the 
husband  to  grant  so  and  so,  and  with  polite  atten- 
tion he  answers :  "  Yes,  with  pleasure  my  dear." 
The  father  requests  the  son  to  do  so  and  so.  "  With 
strict  fidelity,  father."  The  mother  requests  the 
daughter  to  do  so  and  so.  "  Your  pleasure  is  my 
delight,  mothei."  The  brother  requests  the  sister  to 
do  so  and  so.  "  I  am  happy  to  serve  you,  my  dear 
brother."  One,  by  a  little  awkwardness  disconcerts 
another,  he  heartily  begs  pardon.  "  It  is  granted, 
dear  sister,  brother" — as  the  case  may  be, — "  I  know 
you  did  not  intend  it." 


HOPE. 

Hope,  of  all  passions,  most  befriends  us  here ; 
Passions  of  prouder  name  befriend  us  less. 

Toung. 

The  miserable  hath  no  other  medicine, 

Bu^  only  hope, — ShaJcspeare. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  109 


Hope  awakens  courage,  while  despondency  is  the 
last  of  evils ;  it  is  the  abandonment  of  good,  the 
giving  up  of  the  battle  of  life. —  Von  Kneble. 

We  are  never  beneath  hope,  while  above  hell ;  nor 
above  hope,  while  beneath  heaven. 

World's  Laconics. 

True  hope  is  swift,  and  flies  with  swallow's  wings, 
Kings  it  makes  Gods,  and  meaner  creatures  kings, 

Shakspeare. 

Hope  is  a  flatterer,  but  the  most  upright  of  all 
parasites;  for  she  frequents  the  poor  man's  hut,  as 
well  as  the  palace  of  his  superior — Shenstone. 

White  as  a  white  sail  on  a  dusky  sea, 
When  half  the  horizon's  clouded  and  half  free. 
Fluttering  between  the  dun  wave  and  the  sky, 
Is  Hope's  last  gleam  in  man's  extremity. 

£i/ron. 

Hope  !  of  all  ills  that  men  endure. 

The  only  cheap  and  universal  cure ! 

Thou  captives  freedom,  and  thou  sick  man's  healthi 

Thou  lover's  victory,  and  thou  beggar's  wealth. 

Cowley/. 

Her  precious  pearl,  in  sorrow's  cup, 
Unmelted  at  the  bottom  lay. 
To  shine  again,  when,  all  drank  up. 
The  bitterness  should  pass  away. — Moore. 


110  BOOK   OF  THOUGHT. 


HUMAN   PROGRESS— REFORM. 

Thoughts  are  first  clouds,  then  rain,  then  harvests 
and  food.  The  philosophy  of  one  century  is  the 
common  sense  of  the  next.  Men  are  called  fools, 
in  one  age,  for  not  knowing  what  they  were  called 
fools  for  averring  in  the  age  before.  We  should  so 
live  and  labor  in  our  time  that  what  came  to  us  as 
seed  may  go  to  the  next  generation  as  blossom,  and 
that  which  came  to  us  as  blossom  may  go  to  them  as 
fruit.     This  is  what  we  mean  by  progress. 

Henry  Ward  BeecJier. 

The  true  test  of  a  great  man — that  at  least  which 
must  secure  his  place  among  the  higest  order  of 
great  men — is  his  having  been  in  advance  of  his  age. 
This  decides  whether  or  not  he  has  carried  forward 
the  grand  plan  of  human  improvement ;  has  con- 
formed his  views  and  adapted  his  conduct  to  the 
existing  circumstances  of  society,  or  changed  those 
so  as  to  better  its  condition;  has  been  one  of  the 
lights  of  the  world,  or  only  reflected  the  rays  of 
former  luminaries  ;  and  sat  at  the  same  twi-light  or 
the  same  dawn. — Brougham. 

Reform  is  the  great  secret  of  our  nation's  prosper- 
ity ;  and  every  effort  to  paralyize  its  progress,  is  a 
clog  to  its  wheels. — T.  Henry  Davis,  31.  D. 

He  who  reforms  himself,  has  done  more  toward 
reforming  the  public,  than  a  crowd  of  noisy,  impo- 
tent patriots. — Lavater. 


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Analogy,  although  it  is  not  infiillible,  is  yet  that 
telescope  of  the  mind  by  which  it  is  marvelously  as- 
sisted in  the  discovery  of  both  physical  and  moral 
truth.  Analogy  has  much  in  store  for  men,  but 
babes  require  milk,  and  there  may  be  intellectual 
food  which  the  present  state  of  society  is  not  fit  to 
partake  of;  to  lay  such  before  it,  would  be  as  absurd 
as  to  give  a  quadrant  to  an  Indian,  or  a  loom  to  a 
Hottentot. — Colton. 

The  present  is  generally  styled  the  age  of  reform; 
this  we  do  not  feel  disposed  to  controvert.  It  can 
not,  however,  be  denied,  that  mankind  are  wholly 
deficient  in  the  greatest  of  all  reforms — individual 
reform.  Societies  for  the  reformation  of  others  are 
multiplied  almost  ad  infinitum;  but  efforts  for  personal 
reformation  are  much  neglected.  Editors  univer- 
sally complain  of  the  corrupt  state  of  the  press, 
and  yet  most  of  them  aid  in  the  perpetuation  of 
that  corruption.  Infidels,  as  well  as  Christians, 
mourn,  or  profess  to  mourn,  over  the  evils  of  society ; 
while  those  evils  are  augmented  by  their  own  wrong 
doings.  Reformers  must  take  an  entirely  different 
course — first  reform  themselves,  and  then  their  in- 
fluence will  be  felt  with  a  hundred-fold  more  force 
on  others. 

"  Man  know  thyself :  all  wisdom  centers  there." 
So  said   the   profound,   though   poetical   writer, 
Young.     And  until  this  wisdom  is  acquired,  and  ex- 
hibited in  life,  no  thorough  reform  can  take  place  in 
the  world. — T.  Harrison. 


112  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


The  wisest  man  may  be  wiser  to-day  than  he  was 
yesterday,  and  to-morrow  than  he  his  to-day.  Total 
freedom  from  change  would  imply  total  freedom  from 
error;  but  this  is  the  prerogative  of  Omniscience 
alone. — Colton. 


HUMILITY. 

Sense  shines  with  a  double  lustre  when  set  in 
humility.  An  able  and  yet  humble  man,  is  a  jewel 
worth  a  kingdom. —  TF/n.  Penn. 

By  humility  and  the  fear  of  the  Lord  are  riches, 
and  honor,  and  life. — God. 

Our  humiliations  work  out  our  most  exalted  joys. 

S^.  Ward  Beecher. 

Humility  that  low,  sweet  root, 

From  which  all  heavenly  virtues  shoot. — Moore. 

The  sufficiency  of  my  merit  is  to  know  that  my 
merit  is  not  sufficient. — St.  Augustine. 


HYPOCRISY. 

If  the  Devil  ever  laughs,  it  must  be  at  hypocrites ; 
they  are  the  greatest  dupes  he  has  ;  they  serve  him 
better  than  any  others,  and  receive  no  wages ;  nay, 
what  is  still  more  extraordinary,  they  submit  to 
greater  mortifications  to  go  to  hell,  than  the  sincerest 
Christian  to  go  to  heaven. — Colton. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  113 


'Tis  not  my  talent  to  conceal  my  thoughts, 
Or  carry  smiles  and  sunshine  in  my  face, 
When  discontent  sits  heavy  on  my  heart. 

Addison. 

Hast  thou  that  holy  feeling  in  thy  soul, 
To  counsel  me  to  make  my  peace  with  God, 
And  art  thou  yet  to  thy  own  soul  so  blind, 
That  thou  wilt  war  with  God. — Shakspeare. 

I,  under  fair  pretence  of  friendly  ends. 
And  well  placed  words  of  glossy  courtesy 
Baited  with  reason  not  unplausible. 
Wind  me  into  the  easy-hearted  man, 
And  hug  him  into  snares. — Milton. 

Though  I  do  hate  him  as  I  do  Hell  pains, 
Yet,  for  necessity  of  present  lift, 
I  must  show  out  a  flag  and  sign  of  love, 
Which  is  indeed  but  sign. — Shakspeare. 


IMITATION. 

I  hardly  know  so  true  a  mark  of  a  little  mind,  as 
the  servile  imitation  of  others. — Greville. 

He  who  is  always  in  want  of  something,  can  not  be 

very  rich.     'Tis  a  poor  wit  who  lives  by  borrowing 

the  words,  decisions,  mien,  inventions,  and  actions 

of  others. — Lavater. 
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114  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


It  is  certain  that  either  wise  bearing,  or  ignorant 
carriage,  is  caught,  as  men  take  diseases,  one  of 
another ;  therefore,  let  men  take  heed  of  their  com- 
pany.— Shakspeare. 


IMMORTALITY. 

I  feel  my  immortality  o'ersweep 

All  pains,  all  tears,  all  time,  all  fears,  and  peal  into 

my  ears  this  truth — thou  liv'st  forever  ? — Byron 

Cold  in  the  dust  this  perished  heart  may  lie. 
But  that  which  warmed  it  once  shall  never  die. 

Campbell. 

A  few  days  may — a  few  years  must^ — 

Repose  us  in  the  silent  dust. 

The  voice  of  nature  loudly  cries, 

And  many  a  message  from  the  skies, 

That  something  in  us  never  dies ; 

That  on  this  frail,  uncertain  state. 

Hang  matters  of  eternal  weight ; 

That  future  life  in  worlds  unknown 

Must  take  its  hue  from  this  alone  ; 

Whether  as  heavenly  glory  bright, 

Or  dark  as  misery's  woful  night.—Jiobt.  Burns. 

The  good  man,  on  viewing  the  dead,  is  not  alarmed 
at  the  express  declaration  of  God,  "  Thou  shalt 
surely  die."  But  he  reflects  that  the  Lord  shall 
deliver  me  also  into  the  hands  of  death.     And  when 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  115 


I  am  dead,  I  shall  have  no  use  for  the  embalmer's 
art:  my  works  of  faith,  labors  of  love,  and  the  robe 
of  Christ's  righteousness,  shall  be  my  spices  and  per- 
fumes. Enwrapped  in  these,  I  will  lay  me  quietly 
down,  and  sleep  sweetly  in  the  blessed  Jesus ;  in  full 
confidence  that  God  will  some  day,  "  give  command- 
ment concerning  my  bones,''  and  one  day  raise  them 
from  the  dust,  as  silver  from  the  furnace,  purified, 
I  say  not,  seven  times,  but  seventy  times  seven. 

Is  it  credible,  is  it  possible,  is  it  probable  that  the 
mighty  soul  of  a  Newton  should  share  exactly  the 
same  fate  with  the  vilest  insect  that  crawls  upon  the 
ground  ?  That,  after  having  laid  open  the  mysteries 
of  nature,  and  pushed  its  discoveries  almost  to  the 
very  boundaries  of  the  universe,  it  should  suddenly 
have  all  its  lights  at  once  extinguished,  and  sink  into 
everlasting  darkness  and  insensibility  ? — Spectator. 

A  belief  in  the  immortality  of  the  soul  furnishes 
the  best  and  surest  alleviation  of  all  the  ills  of  this 
mortal  life,  which  are  both  universal  and  perpetual. 
This  is  the  only  possible  remedy  for  them.  Hence, 
unless  we  adopt  the  incredible  absurdity,  that  error 
strengthens  our  virtue,  improves  our  morality,  in- 
creases our  bliss,  and  mitigates  our  sorrows,  we  are 
brought  inevitably  to  the  conclusion  that  it  is  not 
error  to  believe  in  the  immortality  of  the  soul. 

Judge  McDonald. 


116  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


INFIDELITY. 


"Disbelief  in  a  future  state,"  says  Hume,  "loosens 
in  a  great  measure  the  ties  of  morality,  and  may  be 
supposed,  for  that  reason,  to  be  pernicious  to  the 
peace  of  civil  society." 

D'Alembert  and  Condorcet,  one  day  dining  with 
Voltaire,  proposed  to  converse  of  atheism,  but  Vol- 
taire stopped  them  at  once.  "Wait,"  said  he,  "till 
my  servants  have  withdrawn  ;  I  do  not  wish  to  have 
my  throat  cut  to-night." 

A  town  missionary,  in  Birmingham,  attended  a 
misguided  infidel  on  his  death-bed,  and  the  system 
of  Socialism  being  referred  to,  the  dying  man  ex- 
claimed, "  call  it  not  Socialism ;  call  it  devilism  !  for 
it  has  made  me  more  like  a  devil  than  a  man.  I  got 
into  company  which  led  me  to  Socialism  and  to 
drinking.  I  rejected  the  Bible,  denied  the  Savior, 
and  persuaded  myself  that  there  was  no  hereafter ; 
and  as  the  result,  I  acted  the  part  of  a  bad  father, 
and  a  bad  husband.  I  have  the  testimony  of  my 
master  that  I  was  a  steady  and  respectable  man  until 
I  listened  to  the  Owenites;  but,  since  that  time,  I 
have  become  a  vagabond,  and  those  who  formerly 
knew  me  have  shunned  me  in  the  streets.  The  sys- 
tem of  the  Owenite  is  worse  than  that  of  Paine." 

Dr.  Nelson,  of  Illinois,  in  his  work  on  infidelity, 
gays,  that  for  many  years  he  had  endeavored  to  per- 
suade every  infidel  to  read  some  work  on  the  evi- 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHrr  117 


dences  of  Christianity,  and  never  knew  but  two 
instances  fail  of  conviction,  and  in  these  he  did  not 
know  the  result  for  want  of  opportunity. 

That  infidelity  which  can  persuade  a  man  that  he 
will  die  like  a  brute,  will  also  make  him  live  like  a 
brute. — South. 

An  infidel  in  Western  New  York  desired  that  a 
certain  pastor  of  a  church  should  read  one  of  his 
books.  The  pastor  consented  to  do  so  on  the  condi- 
tion that  the  infidel  would  read  one  of  his  in  turn, 
which  was  "  Leslie  8  Short  Method  with  Deists  J'  It 
was  the  means,  under  God,  of  his  hopeful  conversion ; 
and  of  the  many  whose  minds  he  had  poisoned,  he 
was  the  instrument  of  bringing  back  ten  or  twelve 
to  the  knowledge  of  the  truth. 

When  Dr.  Johnson  was  asked  why  so  many  lite- 
rary men  were  infidels,  he  replied,  "because  they 
are  ignorant  of  the  Bible." 


INTEGRITY. 

In  all  things  preserve  integrity ;  and  the  con- 
sciousness of  thine  own  uprightness  will  alleviate 
the  toil  of  business,  soften  the  hardness  of  ill  success 
and  disappointments,  and  give  thee  an  humble  con- 
fidence before  God,  when  the  ingratitude  of  man, 
or  the  iniquity  of  the  times,  may  rob  thee  of  other 
reward. — Paley 


118  Book  of  thought. 


Integrity  is  a  stilling  virtue,  which  is  not  likely 
ever  to  lose  any  of  its  lustre,  by  becoming  too  com- 
mon among  men. 


JEALOUSY. 

Trifles  light  as  air 
Are  to  the  jealous  confirmations  strong, 
As  proofs  of  holy  writ. — ShaJcspeare. 

To  be  jealous,  is  to  torment  yourself,  for  fear  you 
should  be  tormented  by  another. 

0  jealousy, 
Thou  vilest  fiend  of  hell !  thy  deadly  venom 
Preys  on  my  vitals,  turns  the  healthful  hue 
Of  my  fresh  cheek  to  haggard  sallowness. 
And  drinks  my  spirit  up ! — Hannah  Moore. 


JUDGMENT. 

Frame  every  action  and  plan  of  your  whole  life, 
with  reference  to  the  unchanging  decisions  of  the 
day  of  judgment. — Roht.  B.  Cutter. 

Moral  character  will  be  the  only  mark  of  distinc- 
tion at  the  judgment  seat  of  Christ.  All  outward 
distinctions  will  there  be  totally  abolished. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  119 


JUSTICE. 

The  only  way  to  make  the  mass  of  mankind  see 
the  beauty  of  justice,  is,  by  showing  them  in  pretty 
plain  terms,  the  consequence  of  injustice. 

Sidney  Smith. 

Justice  is  as  strictly  due  between  neighboring  na- 
tions, as  between  neighbor  citizens.  A  highwayman 
is  as  much  a  robber  when  he  plunders  in  a  gang,  as 
when  single ;  and  a  nation  that  makes  an  unjust 
war  is  only  a  great  gang  of  robbers. — Franklin. 

Courteously  grant  to  others  more  than  strict  jus- 
tice demands  of  you. — Mrs.  H.  Morrell. 

Let  a  sense  of  justice  be  the  foundation  of  all 
your  social  qualities. — Scott's  Lessons. 

Philip,  king  of  Macedon,  having  drunk  too  much 
wine,  determined  a  cause  unjustly,  to  the  hurt  of  a 
poor  widow,  who  on  hearing  his  decree,  cried  out, 
"I  appeal  to  Philip  sober."  The  king,  struck  with 
this  strange  appeal,  and  the  confiding  manner  of  the 
poor  woman,  speedily  recovered  his  senses,  reheard 
the  cause,  and,  finding  his  mistake,  ordered  her  to 
be  paid  out  of  his  own  purse,  double  the  sum  she 
was  to  have  lost. 

This  is  an  example  of  justice  worthy  to  be  copied. 

Justice  is  the  great  interest  of  man  on  earth.  It 
is  the  ligament  which  holds  civilized  beings  and  civi- 
lized nations  together.  Wherever  her  temple  stands, 
and  so  long  as  it  is  duly  honored,  there  is  a  founda- 


120  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


tion  for  social  security,  general  happiness,  and  the 
improvement  and  progress  of  our  race.  And  who- 
ever labors  on  this  edifice  with  usefulness  and  dis- 
tinction, whoever  clears  its  foundations,  strengthens 
its  pillars,  adorns  its  entablatures,  or  contributes  to 
raise  its  august  dome  still  higher  in  the  skies,  con- 
nects himself  in  name,  and  fame  and  character,  with 
that  which  is  and  must  be  as  durable  as  the  frame 
of  human  society. —  Webster. 

If  strict  justice  be  not  the  rudder  of  all  our  other 
virtues,  the  faster  we  sail,  the  further  shall  we  find 
ourselves  from  "that  haven  where  we  would  be." 

Colton. 


KIND    WORDS. 

Kind  words  are  the  brightest  flowers  that  bloom 
in  this  vale  of  sorrow.  They  make  a  paradise  of  the 
humblest  home.  They  are  jewels  beyond  all  price, 
and  more  precious  and  efiectual  to  heal  the  wounded 
heart,  and  raise  the  weighed  down  spirit,  than  all 
other  blessings  this  world  can  bestow. 

31is8  A.  Q.  N.  Morrell. 

A  word  of  kindness  is  seldom  spoken  in  vain.  It 
is  seed  which,  even  when  dropped  by  chance,  springs 
up  a  flower. — D.  B.  Adams. 

More  hearts  pine  away  in  secret  anguish,  for  un- 
kindness  from  those  who  should  be  their  comforters, 
than  for  any  other  calamity  in  life. — Young. 


BOOK   OF   THOUGHT.  121 


A  helping  word  to  one  in  trouble  is  often  like  a 
switch  on  a  railroad  track — but  one  inch  between 
wreck  and  smooth  rolling  prosperity. 

S.  Ward  BeecJier. 

Deal  gently  with  those  who  stray  from  the  paths 
of  rectitude.  A  kiss  or  a  kind  word  will  do  more 
toward  reclaiming  the  poor  wanderer,  than  a  thousand 
kicks. 


LABOR,  INDUSTRY,  IDLENESS,  LAZINESS, 
SLOTH. 

Physical  labor  conduces  to  physical  health,  moral 
purity,  and  mental  power. — R.  B.  Cutter. 

Moderate  exercise  and  toil,  so  far  from  injuring, 
strengthens  and  consolidates  the  body. — Br.  Rush. 

Labor,  though  the  primeval  curse,  is  softened 
into  mercy. 

As  nothing  truly  valuable  can  be  had  without  in- 
dustry, every  young  person  should  carefully  culti- 
vate industrious  habits. — Mrs.  R.  Morrell. 

Nothing  is  denied  to  well-directed  labor ;  nothing 
valuable  is  ever  to  be  attained  without  it. 

Sir  J,  Reynolds. 

Think  not  a  life  of  labor  hard. 

Health  is  its  rich  and  sure  reward. 
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122  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Industry  need  not  wish,  and  he  that  lives  upon 
hope  will  die  fasting. — Franklin. 

Industry  conquers  all  enemies,  and  makes  fortune 
itself  pay  contribution. — Clarendon. 

At  the  working-man's  house  hunger  looks  in,  but 
dare  not  enter ;  nor  will  the  bailiff  or  the  constable 
enter:  for  industry  pays  debts,  while  despair  in- 
creases them. — Franklin. 

Sloth,  like  rust,  consumes  faster  than  labor  wears, 
while  the  key  often  used  is  always  bright. 

Franklin. 

Troubles  spring  from  idleness,  and  grievous  toils 
from  needless  ease. — Franklin. 

Labor,  intelligent,  manly,  independent,  thinking 
and  acting  for  itself,  earning  its  own  wages,  accumu- 
lating those  wages  into  capital,  educating  chilhood, 
maintaining  religious  worship,  claiming  the  right  of 
the  elective  franchise,  and  helping  to  uphold  the  great 
fabric  of  the  state — that  is  American  labor ;  and  all 
my  sympathies  are  with  it ;  and  my  voice,  till  I  am 
dumb,  will  be  for  it. — Webster. 

Diligence  in  employments  of  less  consequence  is 
the  most  successful  introduction  to  greater  enter- 
prises.— Todd. 

There  are  many  miseries  in  idleness  which  none 
but  the  idler  can  conceive  of. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  123 


Industrious  wisdom  often  does  prevent 
What  lazy  folly  thinks  inevitable. 

Abdicated  Prince. 

From  labor  health,  from  health  contentment  springs ; 
Contentment  opes  the  source  of  every  joy. — Beattie. 

Idleness  is  the  hotbed  of  temptation,  the  cradle 
of  disease,  the  waster  of  time,  the  canker-worm  of 
felicity. 

Laziness  grows  on  people  ;  it  begins  in  cobwebs, 
and  ends  in  iron  chains. 

The  laboring  man  of  enlightened  mind,  is  the 
American  gentleman;  the  intelligent  working  woman 
is  the  American  lady. — Mrs.  R.  Morrell. 

There  is  nothing  menial  in  the  performance  of 
any  necessary  labor.  The  noblest  man  on  earth  is 
he  who,  with  an  enlighted  mind,  puts  his  hands 
cheerfully  and  proudly  to  honest  labor. 

D.  B.  Adams. 

When  the  proud,  the  rich,  the  idle,  would  see  an 
intelligent,  cheerful,  honest  laborer,  they  must  look 
Wj9,  however  much  they  may  affect  to  look  down. 

The  person  who  is  ashamed  to  be  seen  at  useful 
labor,  has  a  strange  perveision  of  mind. 

Angelina  Cr.  -/\r.  Morrell. 

Two  words  will  make  any  young  man  of  sound 
intellect  a  lawyer — industry  and  application;  and 


124  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


the  same  words  with  a  third — economy — will  enable 
him  to  make  a  fortune. — Henry  Clay. 

Human  enjoyments  are  only  to  be  secured  by 
human  labor. — Roh.  Chambers. 

For  slu^rgard's  brow  the  laurel  never  grows ; 
Renown  is  not  the  child  of  indolent  repose. 

Thompson. 

Lazy  rich  girls  make  rich  men  poor,  and  indus- 
trious poor  girls  make  poor  men  rich. — Anonymous. 

Ten  thousand  harms  more  than  the  ills  we  know, 
Our  idleness  doth  hatch. — Shakspeare. 

By  nature's  law  immutable  and  just, 

Enjoyment  stops  where  indolence  begins. — PollocTc. 

Providence  has  put  care  and  labor  on  us,  because 
blessings  too  easily  enjoyed  are  soon  neglected,  if  not 
despised. —  Virgil. 

All  labor  of  mind  required  of  children  before  the 
seventh  year,  is  rather  in  opposition  to  the  laws  of 
nature ;  and  proves  injurious  to  the  physical  organ- 
ization, and  prevents  its  proper  and  mature  develop- 
ment.— Huf eland. 

Each  day  brings  its  appropriate  work,  and  happy 
is  he  who  loves  his  duty  well  enough  to  welcome  it. 

World's  Lacon. 

A  man  should  labor  to  better  his  condition,  but 
first  he  should  labor  to  better  himself.     "  Seek  ye 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  125 


first  the  kingdom  of  heaven  and  his  righteousness, 
and  all  these  things  shall  be  added  unto  you." 

Strong  arms  and  willing  hands  for  labor,  directed 
by  an  enlightened  mind,  is  a  beautiful  thing  to  con- 
template.— Heater  Ann  Jones. 

Industry  is  not  only  the  instrument  of  improve- 
ment, but  the  foundation  of  pleasure. 

Scotfa  Lessons. 

Though  indolence  appear  a  slowly-flowing  stream, 
yet  it  undermines  all  that  is  stable  and  flourishing. 

Blair. 

Industry  keeps  the  soul  in  constant  good  health ; 
but  idleness  corrupts  and  rusts  the  mind. — Smither. 

No  lazy  person  will  ever  inherit  eternal  life,  for  it 
is  attained  by  toil. — Di:  D.  B.  Adams. 

Diligence  is  the  mother  of  good  luck,  and  God 
gives  all  things  to  industry. — Franklin. 

One  to-day  is  worth  two  to-morrows,  as  poor  Rich- 
ai'd  says ;  and  further,  never  leave  that  till  to-mor- 
row which  you  can  do  to-day. — Franklin. 

What  is  lost  by  idleness  is  estimated  higher  than 
the  money  expended. — B.  B.  Gutter. 

When  the  devil  has  any  odd  job  to  do,  he  always 
looks  about  for  some  idler  to  do  it. — One  who  has 
occasionally  performed  some  of  those  odd  jobs. 


126  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


When  a  great  crime  has  been  committed,  espe- 
cially in  a  city,  we  have  observed  that  the  police 
look  among  the  idle  and  the  dissolute  for  the  perpe- 
trator.— F.  31.  Pitts. 

The  way  to  wealth  is  as  plain  as  the  way  to  mar- 
ket. It  depends  chiefly  on  two  words — Industry  and 
Frugality :  that  is,  waste  neither  time  nor  money, 
but  make  the  best  nse  of  both.  Without  Industry 
and  Frugality  nothing  will  do,  and  with  them  every 
thing. — Franklin . 

Absence  of  occupation  is  not  rest, 

A  mind  quite  vacant  is  a  mind  distressed. — Cowper. 

Evil  thoughts  intrude  in  an  unemployed  mind,  as 
naturally  as  worms  are  generated  in  a  stagnant 
pool. — From  the  Latin. 

Bodily  labor  alleviates  the  pains  of  the  mind; 
and  hence  arises  the  happiness  of  the  poor. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Come  hither,  ye  that  press  your  beds  of  down, 
And  sleep  not :  see  him  sweating  o'er  his  bread 
Before  he  eats  it. — 'Tis  the  primeval  curse, 
But  softened  into  mercy ;  made  the  pledge 
Of  cheerful  days  and  nights  without  a  groan 

Cotvper. 

I  look  upon  indolence  as  a  sort  of  suicide;  for  the 
man  is  eflBciently  destroyed,  though  the  appetite  of 
the  brute  may  survive. — Chesterfield. 


BOOK  OP  THOUGHT.  127 


LIBERTY— FREEDOM. 

Partisans  have  their  liberty  circumscribed  by  their 
platform  ;  and  are,  in  very  deed,  much  greater  slaves 
than  any  one  else  would  wish  to  make  them. 

Oh  !  give  me  liberty ! 
For  even  were  Paradise  my  prison, 
Still  I  should  long  to  leap  the  crystal  walls. 

Dryden. 

He  is  a  freeman  whom  the  truth  makes  free, 
And  all  are  slaves  beside. — Cowper. 

Liberty  consists  in  being  master  of  one's  own  time 
and  actions,  consistently  with  the  laws  of  God  and 
our  country. 

So  fond  is  man  of  liberty,  that  to  restrain  him 
from  any  thing,  however  indiflferent,  makes  it  an 
object  of  desire. — Observation. 

Liberty  is  the  soul's  right  to  breathe,  and  when  it 
can  not  take  a  long  breath,  laws  are  girdled  too  tight. 
Without  liberty  man  is  in  a  syncope. 

H.  Ward  Beeeher. 

The  love  of  liberty  with  life  is  given, 
And  life  itself  th'  inferior  gift  of  heaven. 

Dryden. 

The  only  freedom  worth  possessing  is  that  which 
gives  enlargement  to  a  people's  energy,  intellect, 
and  virtues.     The  savage  makes  his  boast  of  free- 


128  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


dom.  But  what  is  it  worth  ?  Free  as  he  is,  he  con- 
tinues for  ages  in  the  same  ignorance,  leads  the 
same  comfortless  life,  sees  the  same  untamed  wilder- 
ness spread  around  him. — Charming. 

The  wish — ^which  ages  have  not  yet  suhdued 
In  man — to  have  no  master  save  his  mood. 

Byron. 
O  liberty,  thou  goddess,  heavenly  bright, 
Profuse  of  bliss,  and  pregnant  with  delight. 

Addison. 
Who  then  is  free  ?     The  wise,  who  well  maintains 
An  empire  o'er  himself;  whom  neither  chains, 
Nor  want,  nor  death,  with  slavish  fear  inspire ; 
Who  boldly  answers  to  his  warm  desire ; 
Who  can  ambition's  vainest  gifts  despise; 
Firm  in  himself,  who  on  himself  relies ; 
Polish'd  and  round,  who  runs  his  proper  course, 
And  breaks  misfortune  with  superior  force. — Horace. 


LIFE. 

This  little  life  has  duties  that  are  great — that  are 
alone  great,  and  that  go  up  to  heaven  and  down  to 
hell. — Carlyle. 

Human  life  is  too  short  to  suflfer  any  part  thereof 
to  run  to  waste,  or  to  be  used  to  disadvantage. 

Life  is  short  yet  tedious ;  spent  in  wishes,  schemes, 
and  desires. — Bruyere. 


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The  vanity  of  human  life  is  like  a  river,  constantly 
passing  away,  and  yet  constantly  coming  on. — Pope. 

The  time  of  life  is  short, 
To  spend  that  shortness  basely,  'twere  too  long. 

Shakspeare. 

All  life  is  expenditure :  we  have  it,  but  as  continu- 
ally losing  it ;  we  have  the  use  of  it,  but  as  continu- 
ally wasting  it. — John  Foster. 

For  what  is  your  life  ?  It  is  even  a  vapor  that 
appeareth  for  a  little  time,  and  then  vanisheth  away. 

James. 

If  we  calculate  the  time  of  life  for  seventy  years, 
and  take  from  it  the  time  of  our  infancy,  plus  the 
time  of  our  childhood,  plus  the  time  of  sleep  and 
recreation,  plus  the  time  of  eating  and  drinking,  plus 
the  time  of  sickness  and  old  age  ;  but  a  small  por- 
tion remains  for  service. — Fuller. 

We  bring  into  the  world  with  us,  a  poor,  needy, 
uncertain  life,  short  at  the  longest,  and  unquiet  at 
the  best. — Sir  W.  Temple. 

While  we  are  reasoning  concerning  life,  life  is 
gone  ;  and  death,  though  perhaps  they  receive  him 
differently,  yet  treats  alike  the  fool  and  the  philoso- 
pher.— Hume. 

He  lives  long  who  lives  well ;  and  time  misspent 
is  not  lived,  but  lost. — Fuller. 

Measure  life  by  man's  desires,  he  can  not  live 


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long  enough ;  measure  by  his  good  deeds,  and  he  has 
not  lived  long  enough;  measure  by  his  evil  deeds, 
and  he  has  lived  much  too  long. — Zimmerman. 

The  man  who  lives  in  vain,  lives  worse  than  in  vain. 
He  who  lives  to  no  purpose,  lives  to  a  bad  purpose. 

Nevins. 
He  most  lives 
Who  thinks  most,  feels  the  noblest,  acts  the  best. 

Bailey. 

The  certainty  that  life  can  not  be  long,  and  the 
probability  that  it  may  be  much  shorter  than  nature 
usually  allows,  ought  to  waken  every  man  to  the  active 
prosecution  of  whatever  he  is  desirous  to  do.  It  is 
true  that  no  diligence  can  insure  success;  death  may 
intercept  the  swiftest  career ;  but  he  who  is  cut  off 
in  the  execution  of  an  honest  undertaking,  has  at 
least  the  honor  of  falling  in  his  rank,  and  at  his  post, 
and  has  fought  the  battle  though  he  missed  the 
prize. — Johnson. 

Measure  not  life  by  the  hopes  and  enjoyments  of 
this  world,  but  by  the  preparations  it  makes  for 
another ;  looking  forward  to  what  you  shall  be, 
rather  than  backward,  to  what  you  have  been. 

Berkeley, 

I  would  have  every  one  consider  that  he  is  in 
this  life  only  a  passenger ;  and  that  he  is  not  to  set 
up  his  rest  here ;  but  to  keep  an  attentive  eye  on 
that  state  of  being  to  which  he  is  approaching  every 
moment,  and  which  will  be  forever  fixed  and  perma- 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  131 


nent.  This  single  consideration  would  be  suflScient 
to  extinguish  the  bitterness  of  hatred,  the  burning 
thirst  of  'avarice,  and  the  cruelty  of  ambition. 

Addison. 

Life,  like  every  other  blessing, 

Derives  its  value  from  its  use  alone, 

Not  for  itself,  but  for  a  noble  end 

The  Eternal  gave  it ;  and  that  end  is  virtue. 

Johnson. 

Fleeting  as  were  the  dreams  of  old, 
Remembered  like  a  tale  that's  told, 
We  pass  away. — Longfellow. 

Our  life  contains  a  thousand  springs. 

But  dies  if  one  be  gone  ! 
Strange  that  a  harp  of  thousand  strings. 

Should  keep  in  tune  so  long! — Watts. 

Nor  love  thy  life,  nor  hate ;  but  what  thou  livest, 
Live  well;  how  long  or  short  permit  to  heaven. 

Milton. 

Life  is  the  time  to  serve  the  Lord, 
The  time  to  insure  the  great  reward ; 
And  while  the  lamp  holds  out  to  burn. 
The  vilest  sinner  may  return. —  Waits. 

Our  life  can  not  properly  be  pronounced  happy, 
till  the  last  scene  has  closed  with  resignation  and 
hope,  and  in  the  full  prospect  of  a  blessed  immor- 
tality beyond  the  grave. — D.  B.  Adams,  M.  D. 


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What  is  life,  but  a  circulation  of  little  mean  ac- 
tions ?  We  lie  down  and  rise  again,  work  or  play, 
dress  and  undress,  feed  and  wax  hungry,  work  or 
play,  and  are  weary,  and  then  we  lie  down  again, 
and  the  circle  returns.  We  spend  the  day  in  trifles, 
and  when  the  night  comes  we  throw  ourselves  on  the 
bed  of  folly,  amongst  dreams,  and  broken  thoughts, 
and  wild  imaginations.  Our  reason  lies  asleep  by 
side  of  us,  and  we  are,  for  the  time,  as  arrant  brutes 
as  those  that  sleep  in  the  stall. 

Are  not  the  capacities  of  man  higher  than  these  ? 
And  ought  not  his  ambition  and  expectations  to  be 
greater  ?  Let  us  be  adventurers  for  another  and  a 
better  world.  It  is  at  least  a  fair  and  noble  chance ; 
and  there  is  nothing  in  this  world  worth  our  thoughts 
or  our  passions.  If  we  should  be  disappointed,  we 
are  still  no  worse  than  the  rest  of  our  fellow  mor- 
tals ;  and  if  we  succeed  in  our  expectations,  we  are 
eternally  happy. — Burnet. 

Life  is  the  jailer  of  the  soul  in  this  filthy  prison, 
and  its  only  deliverer  is  death;  and  what  we  call  life  is 
a  journey  to  death,  and  what  we  call  death  is  a  pass- 
port to  life.  True  wisdom  thanks  death  for  what  he 
takes,  and  still  more  for  what  he  brings. — Colton. 


LOVE. 

Solid  love,  whose  root  is  virtue,  can  no  more  die 
than  virtue  itself. — Erasmus. 


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Better  is  a  dinner  of  herbs  where  love  is,  than  a 
stalled  ox  and  hatred  therewith. — Solomon. 

Love  that  has  nothing  but  beauty  to  keep  it  alive 
and  in  good  health,  is  shortlived,  and  apt  to  have 
ague-fits. — Urasmus. 

Love  covers  a  multitude  of  sins.  It  covers  the 
blemishes  and  excuses  the  failings  of  a  friend ;  it 
draws  a  curtain  before  his  stains,  and  displays  his 
pei-fections ;  it  buries  his  weaknesses  in  silence,  and 
proclaims  his  virtues  upon  the  house-top. — South. 

We  love  ourselves  notwithstanding  our  faults,  and 
we  ought  to  love  others  in  like  manner. — Ci/rus. 

"  I  love  God  and  little  children,"  was  the  simple, 
yet  sublime  sentiment  of  Ritcher.  "Beware,"  said 
Lavater,  "of  him  who  hates  the  laugh  of  a  child." 

Love  not  those  things  excessively,  which  you  are 
not  sure  to  live  long  to  love,  nor  to  have  long  if  you 
should. — Fuller. 

Love  of  our  friends  should  not  attach  us  too 
strongly  to  this  world ;  for  the  greater  part  of  those 
we  have  most  loved  are  gathered  into  eternity ;  so 
that  we  covet  only  exile  from  them,  when  we  would 
prolong  our  stay  on  earth. 

There  is 
In  all  this  cold  and  hollow  world,  no  fount 
Of  deep,  strong,  deathless  love,  save  that  within 
A  mother's  heart. — Memans. 


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Yes,  love  indeed  is  light  from  Heaven, 

A  spark  of  that  immortal  fire 
With  angels  shared,  by  Allah  given. 

To  liorht  from  earth  our  low  desire. 
Devotion  wafts  the  mind  above, 
But  heaven  itself  descends  in  love ; 
A  feeling  from  the  Godhead  canght, 
To  win  from  self  each  sordid  thought ; 
A  ray  of  him  who  formed  the  whole ; 
A  glory  circling  round  the  soul. — Byron. 

Love  is  God's  loaf;  and  this  is  that  feeding  for 
which  we  are  taught  to  pray,  "  Give  us  this  day  our 
daily  bread," — H.  Ward  Beecher. 

True  love  can  no  more  be  diminished  by  showers 
of  evil  than  flowers  are  marred  by  timely  rains. 

Sir  Philip  Sidney. 

Let  Grace  and  Goodness  be  the  principal  load- 
stone of  thy  affections.  For  love  which  hath  ends, 
will  have  an  end  ;  whereas  that  which  is  founded  on 
true  virtue,  will  always  continue. — Dryden. 


LUXURY. 

Luxury  destroys  mankind. 
At  once  corrupts  the  body  and  the  mind. — Crown. 

Fell  luxury  !  more  perilous  to  youth, 

Than  storms  or  quicksands,  poverty  or  chains ! 

H.  Moore. 


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Weariness 
Can  snore  upon  the  flint,  when  restive  sloth 
Finds  the  down  pillow  hard. — Shakspeare. 

Such  is  the  diligence  with  which,  in  countries 
completely  civilized,  one  part  of  mankind  labor  for 
another,  that  wants  are  supplied  faster  than  they 
can  be  formed,  and  the  idle  and  luxurious  find  life 
stagnate  for  want  of  some  desire  to  keep  it  in  mo- 
tion. This  species  of  distress  furnishes  a  new  set 
of  occupations ;  and  multitudes  are  busied  from  day 
to  day  in  finding  the  rich  and  fortunate  something 
to  do. — Johnson. 


LYING. 

After  the  tongue  has  once  got  the  knack  of  lying, 
it  is  not  to  be  imagined  how  almost  impossible  it  is 
to  reclaim  it. — Montaigne, 

Never  chase  a  lie.  Let  it  alone,  and  it  will  run 
itself  to  death.  We  may  work  out  a  good  character 
much  faster  than  any  can  lie  us  out  of  it. 

Berkeley. 

Although  the  devil  is  the  "  father  of  lies,"  and 
therefore  the  inventor  of  the  same ;  yet  he  seems, 
like  other  great  inventors,  to  have  lost  much  of  his 
well-earned  reputation  by  the  continual  improve- 
ments made  upon  him  by  men. — Swift. 

A  lie  will  travel  a  hundred  miles  while  truth  is 
putting  on  its  boots. 


136  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


It  is  more  from  carelessness  about  truth,  than 
from  intentional  lying,  that  there  is  so  much  false- 
hood in  the  world. — Johnson. 

Lying  is  a  hateful  and  accursed  vice.  We  are 
not  men,  nor  have  other  tie  upon  one  another,  but 
our  word.  If  we  did  but  discover  the  horror  and 
consequences  of  it,  we  should  pursue  it  with  fire  and 
sword,  and  more  justly  than  other  crimes. 

Montaigne. 

The  first  step  towards  useful  knowledge,  is  to  be 
able  to  detect  falsehood. — From  the  Latin. 


MAN. 

What  a  piece  of  work  is  man  !  How  noble  in 
reason  !  How  infinite  in  faculties !  In  form  and 
moving,  how  express  and  admirable  !  In  action, 
how  like  an  angel !  In  apprehension,  how  like  a 
god! 

What  a  chimera  is  man  !  what  a  confused  chaos  ! 
what  a  subject  of  contradiction !  a  professed  judge 
of  all  things,  and  yet  a  feeble  worm  of  the  earth ! 
the  great  depository  and  guardian  of  truth,  and  yet 
a  mere  huddle  of  uncertainty!  the  glory  and  scandal 
of  the  universe ! — Pascal. 

To  make  a  man  in  all  points  a  man,  study  to  do 
faithfully  every  duty  incumbent  upon  you.  Stand 
bravely  to  your  post ;  silently  devour  the  chagrins 


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of  life;  delight  injustice;  love  mercy;  control  self; 
swerve  not  in  the  least  from  truth  or  right ;  be  a 
man  of  rectitude,  decision,  conscientiousness,  in  the 
widest  sense  of  those  terms ;  one  who  fears  and  obejs 
God,  and  exercises  benevolence  habitually. 

John  Smither. 

Man  is  to  man  all  kinds  of  beasts ;  a  fawning  dog, 
a  roaring  lion,  a  thieving  fox,  a  robbing  wolf,  a  dis- 
sembling crocodile,  a  treacherous  decoy,  and  a  rapa- 
cious vulture. — Cowley. 


MARRIAGE. 

Never  marry  but  for  love,  but  see  that  thou  lovest 
what  is  lovely. —  Wm.  Penn. 

Thou  art  the  nurse  of  virtue.     In  thine  arms 
She  smiles,  appearing  as  in  truth  she  is. 
Heaven-born  and  destined  to  the  skies  a^ain. 

Cowpcr. 

Marriage  is  the  strictest  tie  of  perpetual  friend- 
ship, and  there  can  be  no  friendship  without  confi- 
dence, and  no  confidence  without  integrity;  and 
he  must  expect  to  be  wretched,  who  pays  to  beauty, 
riches,  or  politeness,  that  regard  which  only  virtue 
and  piety  can  claim. — Johnson. 

The  reason  why  so  few  marriages  are  happy, 
is  because  young  ladies  spend  their  time  in  making 

nets,  not  in  making  cages. — Swift. 

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Themistocles,  the  great  Athenian  general,  being 
asked  whether  he  would  rather  choose  to  marry  his 
daughter  to  an  indigent  man  of  merit,  or  to  a  worth- 
less man  of  estate ;  replied,  that  he  would  prefer  a 
man  without  an  estate  to  an  estate  without  a  man.    ' 

World's  Laconics. 

1 
Marriage  is  to  a  reflecting  female,  at  once  the 

happiest  and  the  saddest  event  of  her  life.  It  is  the 
promise  of  future  bliss,  raised  on  the  death  of  pre- 
sent enjoyment. 

There  are  many  men  who,  from  a  loose  education, 
and  a  consequent  loose  life,  contract  a  lasting  aver- 
sion to  the  marriage  state. 

Be  sure  you  like  the  parents  of  the  girl  you  are 
about  to  wed ;  it  is  almost  as  essential  to  your  future 
happiness  as  to  truly  love  the  object  of  your  wishes. 

Ation. 

That  alliance  may  be  said  to  have  a  double  tie, 
where  the  minds  are  united  as  well  as  the  body,  and 
the  union  will  have  all  its  strength,  when  both  the 
links  are  in  perfection  together. — Colton. 

Marriage  is  the  best  state  for  man  in  general;  and 
every  man  is  a  worse  man  in  proportion  as  he  is  un- 
fit for  the  marriage  state. — Johnson. 

Of  earthly  goods,  the  best  is  a  good  wife ; 
A  bad,  the  bitterest  curse  of  human  life. 

Limonides. 


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MIND. 

The  mind  is  the  great  instrument  of  affecting  the 
world;  and  no  other  instrument  is  so  decidedly  and 
continually  improved  by  exercise  and  use. — Todd. 

y 

The  human  mind  is  but  a  barren  soil,  soon  ex- 
hausted, and  will  produce  no  crop,  unless  it  be  con- 
tinually fertilized  and  enriched  with  foreign  matter. 

Sir  J.  Reynolds. 

There  is  nothing  so  elastic  as  the  human  mind. 
Like  imprisoned  steam,  the  more  it  is  pressed  the 
more  it  rises  to  resist  the  pressure.  The  more  we 
are  obliged  to  do,  the  more  we  are  able  to  accom- 
plish.— T.  Edwards. 

As  the  fire-fly  only  shines  when  on  the  wing,  so  it 
is  with  the  human  mind — when  it  rests  it  darkens. 

Berheley, 

What  stubbing,  plowing,  digging,  and  harrowing 
is  to  land;  thinking,  reflecting,  and  examining  is  to 
the  mind. —  World^s  Laconics. 

The  age  of  a  well  cultivated  mind  is  often  more 
complacent,  and  even  more  luxurious  than  the  youth. 
The  more  the  mind  produces,  the  more  it  is  capa- 
ble of  producing ;  the  creative  faculty  grows  by  in- 
dulgence.— E.  Bryges. 

To  educate  mind,  the  instructor  should  inquire 
into  the  nature  of  mind,  and  the  natural  order  in 
which  its  faculties  are  developed. — Dr.  Wayland. 


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Knowledge,  -wisdom,  erudition,  arts,  and  elegance, 
are  the  mere  trappings  of  the  mind,  if  they  do  not 
serve  to  increase  the  happiness  of  the  possessor.  A 
mind  rightly  instituted  in  the  school  of  philosophy, 
acquires  at  once  the  stability  of  the  oak,  and  the 
flexibility  of  the  osier. — Goldsmith. 

There  is  one  law  inwoven  into  the  nature  of  things, 
which  declares,  that  force  of  mind  and  character 
must  rule  the  world. — E.  P.  Whipple. 

To  see  a  man  fearless  in  dangers,  untainted  with 
lusts,  happy  in  adversity,  composed  in  a  tumult,  and 
laughing  at  all  those  things  which  are  generally 
either  coveted  or  feared,  all  men  must  acknowledge 
that  this  can  be  nothing  else  but  a  beam  of  Divinity 
that  influences  a  mortal  body. — Seneca. 

He  who  has  no  resources  of  mind,  is  more  to  be 
pitied  than  he  who  is  in  want  of  necessaries  for 
the  body ;  and  to  be  obliged  to  beg  our  daily  happi- 
ness from  others,  bespeaks  a  more  lamentable  pov- 
erty than  that  of  him  who  begs  his  daily  bread. 

Colton. 

Man's  chief  good  is  an  upright  mind,  which  no 
earthly  power  can  bestow  nor  take  from  him. 


I^IISFORTUNES. 

Who  hath  not  known  ill-fortune,  never  knew 
Himself,  or  his  own  virtue. — Mallet. 


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Misfortunes  are  in  morals,  what  bitters  are  in 
medicine :  each  is  at  first  disagreeable ;  but  as  the 
bitters  act  as  corroborants  to  the  stomach,  so  adver- 
sity chastens  and  ameliorates  the  disposition. 

From  the  French. 

It  is  much  better  always  to  endeavor  to  forget  our 
past  misfortunes,  than  to  speak  often  of  them. 

Henry  C.  Smither. 


MOB. 

A  mob  is  a  monster  with  heads  enough,  but  no 
heart,  and  little  brains. —  World's  Laconics. 

The  scum 
That  rises  upermost,  when  the  nation  boils. 

Dry  den. 

Mankind  in  the  gross  is  a  gaping  monster,  thnt 
loves  to  be  deceived,  and  has  seldom  been  disap- 
pointed.— Mackenzie. 

Inconstant,  blind. 
Deserting  friends  in  need,  and  duped  by  foes ; 
Loud  and  seditious,  when  a  chief  inspired 
Their  headlong  fury,  but,  of  him  deprived. 
Already  slaves  that  lick'd  the  scourging  hand. 

Thompson 


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MODERATION. 

Moderation  is  the  silken  string  running  through 
the  pearl-chain  of  all  virtues. —  World's  Laconics. 

They  are  sick  that  surfeit  with  too  much,  as  they 
that  starve  with  nothing. — ShaTcspeare. 

Moderation  is  like  temperance :  we  should  wish 
to  eat  more,  but  are  afraid  of  injuring  our  health. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

A  sober  moderation  is  secure, 

No  violent  extremes  endure. — Alleyn. 

Steer  through  life  a  safe  and  middle  course,  avoid- 
ing equally  all  extremes. 

Moderation  is  commonly  firm,   and   firmness   is 
commonly  successful. — Johnson. 


MODESTY. 

A  modest  person  seldom  fails  to  gain  the  good 
will  of  those  he  converses  with,  because  nobody  en- 
vies a  man  who  does  not  appear  to  be  overpleased 
with  himself. — Steele. 

You  little  know  what  you  have  done,  when  you 
have  first  broken  the  bounds  of  modesty ;  you  have 
set  open  the  door  of  your  fancy  to  the  devil,  so  that 
he  can,  almost  at  pleasure,  ever  after,  represent  the 
same  sinful  pleasure  to  you  anew. — Baxter. 


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Modesty  is  to  merit,  as  shades  to  figures  in  a  pic- 
ture ;  giving  it  strength  and  beauty. — Bruyere. 

A  just  and  reasonable  modesty  sets  off  every 
great  talent  which  a  man  can  be  possessed  of.  It 
heightens  all  the  virtues  which  it  accompanies. 

Addison. 

That  modesty  in  a  man  which  suppresses  his  vir- 
tue, and  hides  it  from  the  world,  when  he  has  a  mind 
to  exert  himself,  is  a  bad  quality — a  weakness. 

Taller. 

Immodest  words  admit  of  no  defense, 
For  want  of  decency  is  want  of  sense. 

Roscommon. 

Modesty  is  one  of  the  chief  ornaments  of  youth, 
and  is  generally  a  presage  of  rising  merit. 

Scott's  Lessons. 

Modesty  is  not  only  an  ornament,  but  also  a  safe- 
guard to  virtue. — Miss  Myrtilla  Morrell. 


NATURE. 

Who  can  paint 
Like  nature  ?     Can  imagination  boast. 
Amid  its  gay  creation,  hues  like  hers  ? 
Or  can  it  mix  them  with  that  matchless  skill, 
And  lose  them  in  each  other,  as  appears 
In  every  bud  that  blows  ? — Thompson. 


144  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Look  nature  through,  'tis  revolution  all ; 
All  change ;  no  death. — Young. 

Not  vainly  did  the  early  Persian  make 

His  altar  the  high  places  and  the  peak 
Of  earth — o'er  gazing  mountains,  and  thus  take 

A  fit  and  unwall'd  temple,  there  to  seek 
The  Spirit,  in  whose  honor  shrines  are  weak, 

Uprear'd  of  human  hands.     Come,  and  compare 
Columns  and  idol- dwellings,  Goth,  or  Greek, 

With  nature's  realms  of  worship,  earth  and  air, 
Nor  fix  on  fond  abodes  to  circumscribe  thy  prayer ! 

Byron. 

By  viewing  nature,  nature's  handmaid,  art, 

Makes  mighty  things  from  small  beginnings  grow : 

Thus  fishes  first  to  shipping  did  impart, 

Their  tail  the  rudder,  and  their  head  the  prow. 

Bryden, 

Scenes  must  be  beautiful  which  daily  viewed 
Please  daily,  and  whose  novelty  survives 
Long  knowledge  and  the  scrutiny  of  years  ! 

Coivper. 

The  earth,  that's  nature's  mother,  is  her  tomb ; 
What  is  her  burying  grave,  that  is  her  womb  ; 
And  from  her  womb,  children  of  divers  kind, 
AVe  sucking  on  her  natural  bosom  find  ; 
Many  for  many  virtues  excellent. 
None  but  for  some,  and  yet  all  difierent. 

Sliaksfeare. 


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See,  through  this  air,  this  ocean,  and  this  earth, 
All  matter  quick  and  bursting  into  birth. 
Above,  how  high  progressive  life  may  go  ! 
Around,  how  wide  !  how  deep  extend  below  ! 
Vast  chain  of  being !  which  from  God  began. 
Nature's  ethereal,  human,  angel,  man; 
Beast,  bird,  fish,  insect — what  no  eye  can  see. 
No  glass  can  reach,  from  infinite  to  Thee, 
From  Thee  to  nothing. — Pope. 

0  nature,  how  in  every  charm  supreme ! 

Whose  votaries  feast  on  raptures  ever  new ! 
Oh,  for  the  voice  and  fire  of  seraphim, 

To  sing  thy  glories  with  devotion  due ! 


Beattie. 


NIGHT. 

In  her  starry  shade 
Of  dim  and  solitary  lovelinesss, 
I  learn  the  language  of  another  world. — Byron. 

Darkness  has  divinity  for  me ; 
It  strikes  thought  inward ;  it  drives  back  the  soul 
To  settle  on  herself,  our  point  supreme ! 
There  lies  our  theater ;  there  sits  our  judge. 
Darkness  the  curtain  drops  o'er  life's  dull  scene ; 
'Tis  the  kind  hand  of  Providence  stretched  out 
'Twixt  man  and  vanity :  'tis  reason's  reign, 
And  virtue's  too ;  these  tutelary  shades 
Are  man's  asylum  from  the  tainted  throng. 

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146  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


Night  is  the  good  man's  friend,  and  guardian,  too ; 
It  no  less  rescues  virtue,  than  inspires. — Young. 

Dark  night,  that  from  the  eye  its  functions  takes, 
The  ear  more  quick  of  apprehension  makes ; 
Wherein  it  doth  impair  the  seeing  sense, 
It  pays  the  hearing  double  recompense. — Shahspeare 

How  beautiful  is  night ! 
A  dewy  freshness  fills  the  silent  air. 
No  mist  obscures,  nor  cloud,  nor  speck,  nor  stain, 

Breaks  the  serene  of  heaven : 
In  full  orb'd  glory  yonder  moon  divine 
Rolls  through  the  dark  blue  depths. 

Beneath  her  steady  ray 

The  desert  circle  spreads 
Like  the  round  ocean,  girled  with  the  sky. 

Southey. 

All  is  gentle  ;  naught 
Stirs  rudely ;  but  congenial  with  the  night, 
Whatever  walks  is  gliding  like  a  spirit. — Byron. 


NOVELS. 

Above  all  things,  never  let  your  son  touch  a  novel 
or  a  romance.  How  delusive,  how  destructive  are 
those  pictures  of  consummate  bliss !  They  teach  the 
youthful  to  sigh  after  beauty  and  happiness  which 
never  existed ;  to  despise  the  little  good  that  fortune 
has  mixed  in  our  cup,  by  expecting  more  than  she 


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ever  gave  ;  and  in  general,  take  the  word  of  one  who 
has  seen  the  world,  and  studied  it  more  hy  experi- 
ence than  precept — take  my  word  for  it,  I  say,  that 
such  books  teach  us  very  little  of  the  world. 

Goldgmith. 

No  habitual  reader  of  novels  can  love  the  Bible, 
or  any  other  book  that  demands  thought,  or  incul- 
cates the  serious  duties  of  life.  He  dwells  in  a 
region  of  imagination,  where  he  is  disgusted  with 
the  plainness  and  simplicity  of  truth,  with  the  sober 
realities  that  demand  his  attention,  as  a  rational  and 
immortal  being,  and  an  accountable  subject  of  God's 
government. — Berkeley. 


OBEDIENCE  TO  PARENTS— MANNERS  TO 
AGED  PERSONS. 

Ye   shall   fear   every  man,  his   mother  and  his 
father. — Lev.  19 :  3. 

My  son,  hear  the  instruction  of  thy  father,  and 
forsake  not  the  law  of  thy  mother. — Prov.  1 :  8. 

Cursed  is  he  that  setteth  light  by  his  father  or  his 
mother. — Deut.  27:  16. 

Children,  obey  your  parents  in  all  things ;  for  this 
well-pleasing  unto  the  Lord. — Col.  3:  20. 

Never  deserve  to  be  reproached  with  a  want  of 
respect  in  your  manners  to  your  parents. 

Mrs.  E.  MorrelL 


148  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Children  obey  your  parents  in  the  Lord ;  for  this 
is  right.  Honor  thy  father  and  thy  mother,  (which 
is  the  first  commandment  with  promise,)  that  it  may 
he  well  with  thee,  and  that  thou  mayest  live  long  in 
the  earth. — Epli.  6 :  1-3. 

There  is  not  a  more  beautiful  thing  to  behold,  nor 
a  more  pleasing  thing  to  contemplate,  than  cheerful 
obedience  to,  and  due  respect  for  parents. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Adams. 

Want  of  proper  respect  for  parents,  is  one  of  the 
most  glaring  defects  of  childhood  and  youth,  and 
lays  the  foundation  for  disobedience  to  the  laws  of 
the  land,  and  the  laws  of  God. 

Let  thy  child's  first  lesson  be  obedience,  and  the 
second  may  be  what  thou  wilt. — Fuller. 

Respect  to  the  aged,  and  kindness  to  children,  are 
among  the  true  tests  of  an  amiable  disposition. 

Sigourney. 

Honor  thy  parents,  them  that  gave  thee  birth, 
And  watched  in  tenderness  thine  earliest  days, 
And  trained  thee  up  in  youth,  and  loved  in  all. 

Edwards. 

Thou  shalt  rise  up  before  the  hoary  head,  and 
honor  the  face  of  the  old  man,  and  fear  thy  God :  I 
am  the  Lord. — Lev.  19  :  32. 

Likewise,  ye  younger,  submit  yourselves  unto  the 
eUQT.—lPet.  5:  5. 


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How  sharper  than  a  serpent's  tooth  it  is, 
To  have  a  thankless  child. — Shakspeare. 


OCCUPATION— EMPLOYMENT. 

Time  well  employed  is  Satan's  deadliest  foe, 
It  leaves  no  opening  for  the  lurking  fiend. 

Wilcox. 

No  thoroughly  occupied  man  was  ever  yet  very 
hopelessly  miserable. — Landon. 

I  have  lived  long  enough  to  know  that  the  great 
secret  of  human  happiness  is  this :  never  suffer  your 
energies  to  tire  or  stagnate. — Adam  Clark. 

He  who  will  not  apply  himself  to  business,  evi- 
dently discovers  that  he  intends  to  get  his  bread  by 
cheating,  stealing,  or  begging,  or  else  is  wholly  void 
of  reason. — Ischomachus. 

The  great  happiness  of  life,  I  find,  after  all,  to 
consist  in  the  regular  discharge  of  some  mechanical 
duty. — Schiller. 

Occupation  is  a  pressing  necessity  to  the  young. 
They  love  to  be  busy  about  something,  however  tri- 
fling ;  and  if  not  directed  to  some  useful  employment, 
will  soon  engage  in  something  evil ;  thus  verifying 
the  old  proverb,  "  that  idleness  is  the  mother  of  mis- 
chief."—  WorMs  Laconics. 

Indolence  is  a  delightful,  but  distressing  state; 


150  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


"we  must  be  doing  something  to  be  happy.  Action 
is  no  less  necessary  than  thought,  to  the  instinctive 
tendencies  of  the  human  frame. — Sazlitt. 

The  prosperity  of  a  people  is  in  proportion  to  the 
number  of  hands  and  minds  usefully  employed.  To 
the  community,  sedition  is  a  fever,  corruption  is  a 
gangrene,  and  idleness  is  an  atrophy. — Johnson. 

He  who  does  not  bring  up  his  son  to  some  honest 
calling  and  employment,  brings  him  up  to  be  a  thief. 

Jewish  Maxim. 

"It  is  employment,"  says  Daniel  Webster,  "that 
makes  people  happy,"  and  says  Jean  Paul,  "  I 
have  fire  proof,  perrennial  enjoyments,  called  em- 
ployments." 

Employment,  which  Galen  calls  "  nature's  physi- 
cian," is  so  essential  to  human  happiness,  that  indo- 
lence is  justly  considered  the  mother  of  misery. 

Burton. 

Every  Egyptian  was  commanded  by  law,  to  declare 
annually,  by  what  means  he  maintained  himself; 
and  if  he  omitted  to  do  it,  or  gave  no  satisfactory 
account  of  his  way  of  living,  he  was  punishable  with 
death.  This  law  Solon  brought  from  Egypt,  to 
Athens,  where  it  was  inviolably  observed  as  a  most 
equitable  regulation. — Herodotus. 

Most  of  the  trades  and  professions  among  man- 
kind, take  their  original,  either  from  the  love  of 


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pleasure,  or  the  fear  of  want.  The  former,  when 
it  becomes  too  violent,  degenerates  into  luxury, 
and  the  latter  into  avarice. — Addison. 

The  safe  and  general  antidote  against  sorrow,  is 
employment.  It  is  commonly  observed,  that  among 
soldiers  and  seamen,  though  there  is  much  kindness, 
there  is  little  grief;  they  see  their  friend  fall  without 
any  of  that  lamentation  which  is  indulged  in  security 
and  idleness,  because  they  have  no  leisure  to  spare 
from  the  care  of  themselves ;  and  whoever  shall  keep 
his  thoughts  equally  busy,  will  find  himself  equally 
unaffected  by  irretrievable  losses. — Johnson. 

Redeeming  your  time  from  dangerous  waste,  en- 
deavor to  occupy  it  fully  with  employments,  which 
you  can,  any  time,  review  with  entire  satisfaction. 

t/ohn  Smither, 


OPPORTUNITY. 
A  little  fire  is  quickly  trodden  out ; 
Which,  being  suffered,  rivers  can  not  quench. 

Shakspeare. 

Opportunity  has  hair  in  front,  behind  she  is  bald ; 
if  you  seize  her  by  the  forelock,  you  may  hold  her, 
but,  if  suffered  to  escape,  not  Jupiter  himself  can 
catch  her  again— i'Vow  the  Latin. 

No  man  possesses  a  genius  so  commanding  that 
he  can  attain  eminence,  unless  a  subject  suited  to 
his  talents  should  present  itself,  and  an  opportunity 
occur  for  their  development. — Pliny. 


153  BOOK   OP  THOUGHT. 


There  is  a  tide  in  the  affairs  of  men, 

Which,  taken  at  the  flood,  leads  on  to  fortune ; 

Omitted,  all  the  voyage  of  their  life 

Is  bound  in  shallows,  and  in  miseries : 

And  we  must  take  the  current  when  it  serves, 

Or  lose  our  ventures. — Shakspeare. 


ORDER— METHOD. 
Order  is  heaven's  first  law. — Pope. 

Let  order  o'er  your  time  preside. 
And  method  all  your  business  guide. 

Tract  Primer. 

One  thing  at  once  be  still  begun, 

Continued,  resolved,  pursued,  and  done. — Ihid. 

We  do  not  keep  the  outward  form  of  order, 
Where  there  is  deep  disorder  in  the  mind. 

Shakspeare. 

Method  goes  far  to  prevent  trouble  in  business, 
by  making  the  task  easy,  hindering  confusion,  and 
saving  time. —  Wm.  Penn. 

Order,  thou  eye  of  action,  wanting  thee, 
Wisdom  works  hood-winked  in  perplexity ; 
Entangled  reason  trips  at  every  pace. 
And  truth,  bespotted,  puts  on  error's  face. 

A.  Eill. 


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PASSIONS. 

He  suffers  himself  to  be  seen  through  a  micro- 
scope, who  is  caught  in  a  fit  of  passion. — Lavater. 

Men  spend  their  lives  in  the  service  of  their  pas- 
sions, instead  of  employing  their  passions  in  the 
service  of  their  lives. — Steele. 

Our  passions  are  like  convulsion  fits,  -which,  though 
they  make  us  stronger  for  the  time,  leave  us  the 
weaker  ever  after. — Pope. 

The  passions  may  be  humored  till  they  become 
our  masters,  as  a  horse  may  be  pampered  till  he 
gets  the  better  of  his  rider ;  but  early  discipline  will 
prevent  mutiny  and  keep  the  helm  in  the  hand  of 
reason. — Cumberland. 

The  passions  are  unruly  cattle,  and  therefore  you 
must  keep  them  chained  up,  and  under  government 
of  religion,  reason,  and  prudence. — Sir  M.  Hale. 

Princes  rule  the  people ;  and  their  own  passions 
rule  princes ;  but  Providence  can  overrule  the  whole, 
and  draw  the  instruments  of  his  inscrutable  purpose 
from  the  vices  no  less  than  from  the  virtues  of  kings. 

Colton. 

The  round  of  a  passionate  man's  life  is  in  con- 
tracting debts  in  his  passion,  which  his  virtue  obliges 
him  to  pay.  He  spends  his  time  in  outrage  and 
acknowledgment,  injury  and  reparation. — Johnson. 


154  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


We  ought  to  distrust  our  passions,  even  when  they 
appear  most  reasonable. — Safe  Rule. 


PATIENCE. 

The  soul  clothed  with  patience  is  in  armor  of 
proof,  against  which  the  shafts  of  vexation  fly  only 
to  lose  their  point. — Mrs.  S.  U.  Phelps. 

If  the  wicked  flourish,  and  thou  suffer,  be  not  dis- 
couraged They  are  fatted  for  destruction:  thou 
art  dieted  for  health. — Fuller. 

The  impatient — the  fretful,  worrying  spirit,  is  the 
sensitive,  helpless  prey  to  innumerable  evils. 

3Iiss  A.  a.  N.  Morrell. 

How  poor  are  they  that  have  not  patience ! 
What  wound  did  ever  heal,  but  by  degrees  ? 

Shakspeare. 


PEACE. 

Five  great  enemies  to  peace  inhabit  with  us,  viz ; 
avarice,   ambition,   envy,  anger,  and  pride,  and  if 
those  enemies  were  to  be  banished,  we  would  infalli- 
bly enjoy  perpetual  peace. — Petrarch. 

I  do  not  know  that  Englishman  alive, 
With  whom  my  soul  is  any  jot  at  odds. 
More  than  the  infant  that  is  born  to-night. 

ShaJcspeare. 


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'Tis  death  to  me,  to  be  at  enmity ; 

I  hate  it,  and  desire  all  good  men's  love. 

Shalcspeare. 


PERSONAL    CLEANLINESS. 

The  healthy  and  vigorous  state  of  the  nerves,  and 
of  the  functions  of  digestion,  depends  in  so  great  a 
degree,  on  the  cleanliness  of  the  skin,  that  the  im- 
portance of  daily  bathing  can  hardly  be  overstated. 

The  human  organism  is  so  constituted  that,  no 
person  can  be  absolutely  clean  without  thoroughly 
washing  the  whole  surface  of  the  body  with  pure 
water  every  day. 

The  most  scrupulous  cleanliness  of  person,  is 
necessary  for  health  and  comfort ;  and  is  the  first 
moral  and  physical  duty  of  every  human  being. 

Every  person  not  only  consults  his  own  well-being, 
his  dignity  and  enjoyment,  by  his  care  of  his  per- 
son, but  he  also  fulfills  a  social  duty.  Want  of  per- 
sonal cleanliness  is  a  violent  breach  of  good  man- 
ners. 

Let  one  who  entertains  the  idea  of  doins  a  wicked 
deed,  wash  his  whole  body  with  pure  cold  water, 
followed  up  by  the  towel,  flesh-brush,  and  a  clean 
shirt ;  and  ten  to  one,  he  will  not  commit  the  overt 
act.     Hence  bathing  is  a  high  moral  duty. 

Miss  MyrtUla  Morrell. 


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Amonp;   the   social  virtues,  personal   cleanliness 
ought  to  be  conspicuously  ranked. — Jo  Dennie. 

Even  from  the  body's  purity,  the  mind 
Receives  a  secret  sympathetic  aid. — Thoinpson. 


PLEASURE   AND  PAIN. 

It  would  be  impossible  to  appreciate  pleasure, 
were  there  no  pain.  Among  the  last  lectures  that 
Socrates  delivered,  was  a  short  one  on  the  subject 
of  the  constant  succession  of  pleasure  and  pain,  and 
their  nature  in  general.  His  fetters  being  taken  off 
on  the  day  of  his  execution,  and  being  seated  in  the 
midst  of  his  disciples,  and  laying  one  of  his  legs 
over  the  other  in  a  very  unconcerned  posture,  he 
began  to  rub  it  where  it  had  been  galled  by  the  iron, 
observed  the  pleasure  of  that  sensation  which  now 
arose  in  those  very  parts  of  his  leg  that  just  before 
had  been  so  much  pained  by  the  galling  fetters.  In 
this  he  manifested  his  utter  contempt  of  death,  and 
(after  his  usual  manner)  took  this  occasion  of  phil- 
osphising  upon  a  useful  subject. — Spectator. 


PRAISE. 

Allow  no  man  to  be  so  free  with  you  as  to  praise 
you  to  your  face.  Your  vanity  by  this  means  will 
want  its  food.  At  the  same  time  your  passion  for 
esteem  will  be  more  fully  gratified  ;  men  will  praise 


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you  in  their  actions ;  where  you  now  receive   one 
compliment,  you  will  then  receive  twenty  civilities. 

Steele. 

It  is  the  greatest  possible  praise  to  be  praised  by 
a  man  who  is  himself  deserving  of  praise. 

From  the  Latin. 

Or  who  would  ever  care  to  do  brave  deed, 
Or  strive  in  virtue  others  to  excel. 

If  none  should  yield  him  his  deserved  meed, 
Due  praise,  that  is  the  spur  of  doing  well  ? 

For  if  good  were  not  praised  more  than  ill, 
None  would  choose  goodness  of  his  own  free  will. 

Spencer. 


PRAYER. 

All  the  duties  of  religion  are  eminently  solemn 
and  venerable  in  the  eyes  of  children.  But  none  so 
strongly  proves  the  sincerity  of  the  parent ;  none 
so  powerfully  awakens  the  reverence  of  the  child ; 
none  so  happily  recommends  the  instruction  he  re- 
ceives, as  family  devotions,  particularly  those  in 
which  petitions  for  the  children  occupy  a  distin- 
guished place. — Dwight. 

The  only  instance  of  praying  to  saints,  mentioned 
in  the  Bible,  is  that  of  the  rich  man  in  torment  call- 
ing on  Abraham ;  and  let  it  be  remembered  that  it 
was  practiced  by  a  lost  soul,  and  without  success. 

Cecil, 


158  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


A  good  man's  prayers 
Will  from  the  deepest  dungeon  climb  heaven's  height, 
And  bring  a  blessing  down. — J.  Bailie. 

Any  heart  tuned  Godward,  feels  more  joy 

In  one  short  hour  of  prayer,  than  e'er  was  raised 

By  all  the  feasts  on  earth  since  its  foundation. 

Bailey. 

We  should  pray  with  as  much  earnestness  as  if  we 
expected  every  thing  from  God ;  and  act  with  as 
much  energy  as  if  we  expected  every  thing  from 
ourselves. — Colton. 

0  prayer,  the  converse  of  the  soul  with  God  ;  the 
breath  of  God  in  man  returning  to  its  original ;  the 
better  half  of  our  whole  work,  and  that  which  makes 
the  other  half  lively  and  effectual. — Leighton. 

One  of  the  best  prayers  ever  offered  is  that  which 
Christ  himself  hallowed,  and  set  apart  for  our  obser- 
vation— "  God  be  merciful  to  me,  a  sinner  ! "  There 
is  no  title,  no  "  forever  and  ever,  Amen,"  to  it.  It 
is  only  the  heart  broken  out  of  the  man. 

H.  Ward  Beecher. 

Fountain  of  mercy !  whose  pervading  eye 
Can  look  within  and  see  what  passes  there. 
Accept  my  thoughts  for  thanks :  I  have  no  words. 
My  soul  o'erfraught  with  gratitude,  rejects 
The  aid  of  language — Lord !  behold  my  heart. 

E.  Moore, 


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PflEJUDICE. 

Prejudice  is  a  mist,  which,  in  our  journey  through 
the  world,  often  dims  the  brightest,  and  obscures  the 
best  of  all  good  and  glorious  objects  that  meet  us  on 
our  way. —  Tales  of  Passions. 

Opinions  grounded  on  prejudice  are  always  sus- 
tained with  the  greatest  violence. — Jeffrey. 

Blind  mechanical  attachment  to  ancient  ways  and 
prejudices,  often  retards  the  reception  of  valuable 
discoveries  and  improvements — of  truth. 

Prejudice  is  an  equivocal  term;  and  may  as  well 
mean  right  opinions  taken  upon  trust,  and  deeply 
rooted  in  the  mind,  as  false  and  absurd  ones  so  de- 
rived, and  grown  into  it. — Surd. 

The  grand  reason  why  the  different  religious  sects 
cleave  so  closely  to  their  own  religious  systems  is, 
that  they  are  ignorant  of  all  other  systems ;  many 
of  which  may  be  much  more  reasonable  than  their 
own.  In  such  case  they  hold  their  belief  in  preju- 
dice.—ilfz'ss  M.  Morrell. 

So  little  inquiry  is  there  after  truth,  that  a  great 
majority,  even  of  those  who  hold  truth,  hold  it  in 
prejudice  ;  never  having  tested  it. 

Prejudice  is  a  dense  fog,  through  which  light 
gleams  fearfully,  serving  rather  to  terrify  than  to 
guide  mankind. — Common  Observation. 


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We  seldom  find  persons  whom  we  acknowledge  to 
be  possessed  of  good  sense,  except  those  who  agree 
with  us  in  opinion. — La  Rochefoucauld. 


PRECEPTS— EXAMPLES. 

The  examples  of  the  good  are  more  subject  to  error 
than  their  speculations.  We  should  honor  good  ex- 
amples, but  live  by  good  precepts.  Examples,  how- 
ever, serve  to  impress  precepts. 

Whatever  you  would  have  your  children  become, 
strive  to  exhibit  it  in  your  own  lives  and  conversa- 
tion.— Sigourney. 

It  is  a  moral  duty  resting  on  all  parents  to  set 
before  their  children,  a  model  of  both  public  and 
private  virtues,  worthy  of  their  imitation. 

Henry  Clay. 

If  to  do  were  as  easy  as  to  know  what  were  good 
to  do,  chapels  had  been  churches,  and  poor  men's 
cottages  princes'  palaces.  He  is  a  good  divine  who 
follows  his  own  instructions ;  I  can  easier  teach 
twenty  what  were  good  to  be  done,  than  be  one  of 
the  twenty  to  follow  mine  own  teaching. 

Shakspeare. 

One  of  the  saddest  things  about  human  nature  is, 
that  a  man  may  guide  others  in  the  path  of  life, 
without  walking  in  it  himself;  that  he  may  be  a  pilot 
and  yet  a  castaway. — Mrs.  S.  Ann  Jones. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  161 


As  men  in  all  ages  of  the  world,  have  preached 
and  written  much  better  than  they  have  lived,  it  is 
much  wiser  to  be  guided  by  good  precepts  than  by 
examples ;  however  much  we  may  respect  good  ex- 
amples. The  minister  who,  being  sensible  of  his 
short-comings,  told  his  hearers,  "  do  as  I  tell  you, 
not  as  I  do,"  manifested  honesty  of  heart,  as  well  as 
some  observation. — Z).  B.  Adams,  M.  D. 


PRIDE. 

Pride  slays  thanksgiving,  but  an  humble  mind  is 
the  soil  out  of  which  thanks  naturally  grow. 

H.  Ward  Beeelier. 

The  seat  of  pride  is  in  the  heart,  and  only  there. 
Without  the  sovereign  influence  of  God's  extraordi- 
nary and  immediate  grace,  men  very  rarely  put  ofl" 
all  the  trappings  of  their  pride. — Clarendon. 

Of  all  the  marvelous  works  of  Deity,  perhnps  there 
is  nothing  that  angels  behold  with  such  supreme 
astonishment  as  a  proud  man  ! — Colton. 

Pride  goeth  before  destruction,  and  ahaughty  spirit 
before  a  fall. — Solomon. 

When  pride  enters  the  heart,  if  it  docs  not  find 
a  dessert  there,  it  makes  one ;  even  submission  can 
not  tame  its  ferocity,  nor  satiety  fill  its  voracity ; 
withal,  it  requires  a  very  costly  food — its  possessor's 
happiness. — Colton. 


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We  rise  in  glory  as  we  sink  in  pride, 
Where  boasting  ends,  there  dignity  begins. 

Young. 

The  disesteem  and  contempt  of  others,  is  insepa- 
rable from  our  pride. — Clarendon. 

Pride  defeats  its  own  end,  by  bringing  the  man 
who  seeks  esteem  aud  reverence  into  contempt. 

Bolinghrohe. 

There  is  this  paradox  in  pride, — it  makes  some 
men  ridiculous,  but  prevents  others  from  becoming 
so. — Colion. 

Pride  is  a  vice,  which  pride  itself  inclines  every 
man  to  find  in  others,  and  overlook  in  himself. 

Johnson. 

Pride  hates  superiors,  scorns  inferiors,  and  owns 
no  equal ;  and  until  we  hate  pride  God  hates  us. 

Lacon. 

If  a  proud  man  makes  me  keep  my  distance,  the 
comfort  to  me  is,  that  he  keeps  his  at  the  same  time. 

iSwift. 

Pride  is  a  tumor  in  the  mind,  that  breaks  and 
ruins  all  the  actions ;  a  worm  in  one's  treasury,  that 
eats  up  the  estate.  It  loves  no  man,  and  is  beloved 
by  none ;  it  disparages  another's  virtues  by  detrac- 
tion, and  our  own  by  vain  glory.  It  is  the  friend 
of  the  flatterer,  the  mother  of  envy,  the  nurse  of 
fury,  the  sin  of  devils,  the  devil  of  mankind. 

World's  Laconics. 


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Pride  is  as  loud  a  beggar  as  want,  and  a  great 
deal  more  saucy.  When  you  have  bought  one  fine 
thing,  you  must  buy  ten  more,  that  your  appearance 
may  be  all  of  a  piece ;  but  it  is  easier  to  suppress 
the  first  desire,  than  to  gratify  all  that  follow  it. 

Franklin. 

We  hear  of  a  decent  pride,  a  becoming  pride,  a 
noble  pride,  a  laudable  pride.  Can  that  be  decent 
of  which  we  ought  to  be  ashamed  ?  Can  that  be  be- 
coming of  which  God  has  set  forth  its  deformity  ? 
Can  that  be  noble  which  God  resists  and  is  deter- 
mined to  abase  ?  Can  that  be  laudable  which  God 
calls  abominable  ? — Cecil. 

Pride  is  increased  by  ignorance ;  those  assume  the 
most  who  know  the  least. — Gay. 

"  Pride  may  be  allowed  to  this  or  that  degree, 
else  a  man  can  not  keep  up  his  dignity."  In  glut- 
tony there  must  be  eating,  it  is  not  the  eating,  how- 
ever, that  must  be  blamed,  but  the  excess  in  eating. 
Just  so  in  pride. — Miss  A.  G.N.  Morrell 


PROCRASTINATION. 

He  who  defers  present  duties  till  some  future  time, 
will  probably  defer  his  future  time's  duties  to 
eternity. 

Procrastination  says,  the  next  advantage 
We  will  take  thoroughly. — Shakspeare. 


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Procrastination  has  been  very  properly  called  a 
thief.  I  wish  it  were  no  worse  than  a  thief.  It  is  a 
murderer ;  and  that  which  it  kills  is  not  time  merely, 
but  the  immortal  soul. — Neviyis. 

Be  wise  to-day,  'tis   madness  to  defer ; 
Next  day  the  fatal  precedent  will  plead ; 
Thus  on  till  wisdom  is  pushed  out  of  life. 

Young. 

Of  all  our  losses,  those  caused  by  delay  are  most 
and  heaviest. — Edwards. 

Procrastination  is  the  great,  arch  thief  of  time^ 
the  great  murderer  of  souls,  and  the  faithful  ally  of 
hell. — D.  B.  Adams. 

Good  is  best  when  soonest  wrought, 
Lingering  labors  come  to  nought. 

Roh.  Southwell. 

Whatever  injures  your  eye,  you  are  anxious  to 
remove,  but  things  which  affect  your  mind  you  defer. 

Horace. 

To  be  always  intending  to  live  a  new  life,  but 
never  to  find  time  to  set  about  it :  this  is  as  if  a  man 
should  put  off  eating,  and  drinking,  and  sleeping, 
from  one  day  and  night  to  another,  till  he  is  starved 
and  destroyed. —  Tilloison. 


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PROF  ANENESS. 

Of  all  the  dark  catalogue  of  sins,  there  is  not  one 
more  vile  and  execrable  than  profaneness. — S.  H.  Cox. 

Some  sins  are  productive  of  temporary  profit,  or 
pleasure ;  but  profaneness  is  productive  of  nothing 
unless  it  be  shame  on  earth  and  damnation  in  hell. 

Edwards. 

There  is  neither  profit  nor  pleasure  in  profane 
swearing,  nor  any  thing  in  man's  nature  to  incite 
him  to.  For  though  many  men  pour  forth  oaths  as 
freely  as  if  they  came  naturally,  yet  surely  no  man 
is  born  of  a  swearing  constitution. — Tillotson. 

The  foolish  and  wicked  practice  of  profane  swear- 
ing, is  a  vice  so  low  and  mean,  that  every  person  of 
sense  and  character  detests  and  despises  it. 

Washington. 

Common  swearing,  if  it  have  any  meaning  at  all, 
argues  in  main,  a  perpetual  distrust  of  his  own  repu- 
tation ;  and  is  an  acknowledgement  that  he  thinks 
his  bare  word  not  to  be  worthy  of  credit. —  Tillotson. 

From  a  common  custom  of  swearing,  men  easily 
slide  into  perjury;  therefore,  if  thou  would'st  not  be 
perjured,  do  not  use  to  swear. — Hierocles. 

There  are  some  sins  which  are  presumptions,  and 
do  not  admit  of  any  palliation.  Profane  swearing  is 
one  of  these. — D.  B.  Adajns,  M.  D. 


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An  honest  man  is  believed  without  an  oath,  for 
his  reputation  swears  for  him.  The  man  who  pro- 
fanely swears  to  his  assertions,  seems  to  doubt  his 
own  honesty. 


PROSPERITY— ADVERSITY. 

It  is  one  of  the  worst  effects  of  prosperity  to  make 
a  man  a  vortex,  instead  of  a  fountain ;  so  that  he 
learns  only  to  draw  in,  instead  of  throwing  out. 

H.  Ward  Beecher. 

Adversity  has  ever  been  considered  the  state  in 
which  a  man  most  easily  becomes  acquainted  with 
himself,  particularly  being  free  from  flatterers.  Pros- 
perity is  too  apt  to  prevent  us  from  examining  our 
conduct,  but  as  adversity  leads  us  to  think  properly 
of  our  state,  it  is  most  beneficial  to  us. — Johnson. 

Take  care  to  be  an  economist  in  prosperity :  there 
is  no  fear  of  your  being  one  in  adversity. 

Zimmerman. 

The  good  are  better  made  by  ill : — 

As  odors  crushed  are  sweeter  still. — Rogers. 

The  gods  in  bounty  work  up  storms  about  us, 
That  give  mankind  occasion  to  exert 
Their  hidden  strength,  and  throw  out  into  practice 
Virtues  that  shun  the  day,  and  lie  concealed 
In  the  smooth  seasons  and  the  calms  of  life. 

Addison. 


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Adversity  has  the  eiFect  of  eliciting  talents,  which, 
in  prosperous  circumstances,  would  have  lain  dor- 
mant.— Horace. 

Ye  good  distressed ! 
Ye  noble  few !  who  here  unbending  stand 
Beneath  life's  pressure,  yet  bear  up  awhile. 
And  what  your  bounded  view,  which  only  saw 
A  little  part,  deemed  evil,  is  no  more  ; 
The  storms  of  wintry  time  will  quickly  pass, 
And  one  unbounded  spring  encircle  all. 

Thompson. 


PUNCTUALITY. 

Method  is  the  very  hinge  of  business;  and  there 
is  no  method  without  punctuality — Cecil. 

I  could  never  think  well  of  a  man's  intellectual  or 
moral  character,  if  he  was  habitually  unfaithful  to 
his  appointments. — Emmons. 

Appointments,  once  made,  become  debts.  If  I 
have  made  an  appointment  with  you,  1  owe  you 
punctuality;  and  I  have  no  right  to  waste  your 
time,  if  I  do  my  own. — Cecil. 

The  punctual  man  can  perform  twice  as  much,  at 
least,  as  another  man,  with  twice  the  ease  and  satis- 
faction to  himself,  and  with  equal  satisfaction  to 
others. — Todd. 


168  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Every  child  should  be  taught  to  pay  all  his  debts, 
and  to  fulfill  all  his  contracts,  exactly  in  manner, 
completely  in  value,  punctually  at  the  time.  Every 
thing  he  has  borrowed,  he  should  be  obliged  to 
return  uninjured  at  the  time  specified ;  and  every 
thing  belonging  to  others  which  he  has  lost,  he 
should  be  required  to  replace. — Divight. 

Every  child  should  be  required  to  restore  to  the 
proper  owner,  any  lost  article  which  he  has  found, 
punctually,  and  without /<je  or  reward. 

Mrs.  R.  Morrell. 


QUALITY— RANK. 

Every  error  of  the  mind  is  the  more  conspicuous 
and  culpable,  in  proportion  to  the  rank  of  the  per- 
son who  commits  it. — Juvenal. 

Quality  and  title  have  such  allurements,  that  thou- 
sands are  ready  to  give  up  all  their  own  importance, 
to  cringe,  to  flatter,  to  look  little,  and  to  pall  every 
pleasure  in  constraint,  merely  to  be  among  the  great, 
though  without  the  least  hopes  of  improving  their 
understanding  or  sharing  their  generosity :  they 
might  be  happy  among  their  equals,  but  those  are 
despised  for  company  where  they  are  despised  in 
turn. — Goldsmith. 


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QUARRELS. 

Quarrels  would  never  last  long,  if  the  fault  was 
only  on  one  side. — Rochefoucauld. 

He  that  blows  the  coals  in  quarrels  that  do  not 
concern  him,  has  no  right  to  complain  if  the  sparks 
fly  in  his- own  face. — Franklin. 

Beware 

Of  entrance  to  a  quarrel ;  but,  being  in, 
Bear  it  that  the  opposer  may  beware  of  thee. 

ShaTcspeare. 

If  you  can  not  avoid  a  quarrel  with  a  blackguard, 
let  your  lawyer  manage  it,  rather  than  yourself.  No 
man  sweeps  his  own  chimney  but  employs  a  chimney- 
sweeper, who  has  no  objection  to  dirty  work,  because 
it  is  his  trade. — Colton. 

The  hatred  of  those  who  are  the  most  nearly  con- 
nected, is  the  most  inveterate. —  Tacitus. 


READING — BOOKS  —  LIBRARIES. 

Reading  stimulates  and  puts  our  mental  energies 
into  full  operation. — Todd. 

You  should  read  with  strict  attention,  exactly  de- 
fining the  expressions  of  the  author,  and  never 
admitting  a  conclusion  without  comprehending  its 
reasons. — Grimke. 

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170  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


We  glean  knowledge  by  reading,  but  we  separate 
the  grain  from  the  chaff  by  thought. 

Miss  Myrtilla  Morrell. 

It  is  wholsesome  and  bracing  to  the  mind,  to  have 
its  faculties  put  upon  the  stretch  by  proper  reading. 

It  is  manifest  that  all  government  of  action  is  to 
be  got  by  knowledge,  and  that,  best,  by  gathering 
many  knowledges,  which  is  reading. — Sir  P.  Sidney. 

By  reading  we  enjoy  the  dead ;  by  conversation, 
the  living ;  and  by  contemplation,  ourselves.  Read- 
ing enriches  the  memory ;  conversation  polishes  the 
wit ;  and  contemplation  improves  the  judgment.  Of 
these,  reading  is  the  most  important,  as  it  furnishes 
both  the  others. — Colton. 

Reading  only  furnishes  the  mind  with  the  mate- 
rials of  knowledge  :  it  is  thinking  that  makes  what 
we  read  ours. — Dr.  Locke. 

If  all  the  riches  of  the  Indies,  or  the  crowns  of 
all  the  kingdoms  of  Europe,  were  laid  at  my  feet  in 
exchange  for  my  love  of  reading,  I  would  spurn  them 
all. — Fenelon. 

Reading  makes  a  full  man ;  conversation,  a  ready 
man ;  writing,  an  exact  man. — Lord  Bacon. 

Acquire  a  love  of  reading,  and  you  will  thereby 
become  possessed  of  one  of  the  best  preservatives 
against  dissipation. — R.  B.  Cutter. 


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When  in  reading  we  meet  with  any  maxim  that 
may  be  of  use,  we  should  take  it  for  our  own,  and 
make  an  immediate  application  of  it,  just  as  we 
would  the  advice  of  a  friend,  whom  we  have  pur- 
posely consulted. — Colion. 

Think  as  well  as  read,  and  when  you  read. 
Yield  not  your  mind  to  the  passive  impressions 
which  others  may  please  to  make  upon  it. 

T.  Edwards. 

Read  not  to  contradict  and  confute,  nor  to  believe 
and  take  for  granted,  nor  to  find  talk  and  discourse  ; 
but  to  weigh  and  consider. — Lord  Bacon. 

Form  the  habit  of  reading  systematically,  closely, 
thoughtfully ;  analyzing  every  subject  as  you  pass 
along,  and  laying  it  up  carefully  and  safely  in  your 
memory.  It  is  only  by  this  mode  that  your  infor- 
mation will  be  at  the  same  time  extensive,  accurate, 
and  useful. —  Wirt. 

You  should  read  with  method,  always  proposing 
to  yourself  a  worthy  end  in  view. — E.  P.  Whipple. 

One  of  the  amusements  of  idleness  is  reading 
without  the  fatigue  of  close  thinking ;  and  the  world, 
therefore,  swarms  with  writers  whose  wish  is  not  to 
be  studied,  but  to  be  read  for  pastime. — Johnson. 

Good  books  are  the  voices  of  the  distant  and  the 
dead,  and  make  us  heirs  of  the  spiritual  life  of  past 
ages. — Channing. 


172  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


Few  things  weaken  the  mind  of  the  student  more 
than  light,  miscellaneous  reading. — Todd. 

"Were  I  to  pray  for  a  taste  which  would  serve  me 
under  every  variety  of  circumstances,  and  be  a 
source  of  happiness  and  cheerfulness  to  me  during 
life,  and  shield  me  against  its  ills,  however  things 
might  go  amiss  with  me,  and  the  world  frown  upon 
me,  it  would  be  a  taste  for  reading.  By  reading 
you  bring  a  man  in  contact  with  the  best  society  in 
every  period  of  history — with  the  wisest  and  best, 
the  tenderest  and  bravest,  the  purest  characters  who 
have  adorned  humanity.  You  make  him  a  denizen 
of  all  nations,  a  cotemporary  of  all  ages.  The 
world  has  been  created  for  him. — Sir  John  Herschel. 

Precious  and  priceless  are  the  blessings  which 
good  books  scatter  along  our  daily  paths. 

E.  P.  WMpjyle. 

Next  to  the  acquiring  good  associates  and  friends, 
the  best  acquisition  is  that  of  good  books. — Colton. 

A  single  good  book  read  with  thought  and  due 
discrimination,  is  worth  a  score  merely  run  over. 
To  make  what  you  read  your  own,  think  as  you 
read,  and  think  after  you  have  laid  aside  the  book. 
This  will  so  fix  it  in  the  mind,  that  it  will  be  at 
your  command  at  any  future  time. — Todd. 

Those  books  are  the  most  valuable  that  set  our 
thinking  faculties  into  the  fullest  operation. 

Mis8  Myrtilla  MorrelL 


BOOK   OF  TEOUGHT.  173 


Crood  books  introduce  the  reader  into  the  society 
—the  spiritual  presence  of  the  "great  and  good  of 
the  whole  human  race. — Channing. 

Books  are  company  ;  and  the  company  of  bad 
books  is  as  dangerous  as  bad  associates,  while  that 
of  good  books  is  like  that  of  good  men. — Berheley, 

Libraries  are  as  shrines  where  all  the  precious 
relics  of  the  saints,  full  of  virtue,  and  that  without 
delusion  and  imposture,  are  preserved  and  reposed. 

Bacon. 

As  good  almost  kill  a  man  as  kill  a  good  book. 
Many  a  man  lives  a  burden  to  the  earth ;  but  a  good 
book  is  the  precious  life-blood  of  a  master-spirit, 
embalmed  and  treasured  up  on  purpose,  to  a  life 
beyond  life. — Milton. 

I  no  sooner  set  foot  in  a  good  library  and  fasten 
the  door,  but  I  shut  out  ambition,  love,  and  all  those 
vices  which  idleness  is  the  mother,  and  ignorance 
the  nurse,  and  in  the  very  lap  of  eternity  among  so 
many  illustrious  souls,  I  take  my  seat,  with  so  lofty 
a  spirit,  that  I  then  pity  the  great,  who  know  nothing 
of  such  happiness. — Southey. 

What  we  read  with  inclination  makes  a  stronger 
impression.  If  we  read  without  inclination,  half 
the  mind  is  employed  in  fixing  the  attention,  so 
there  is  but  half  to  be  employed  on  what  we  read. 

Johnson. 


174  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Many  books  require  no  thought  from  the  reader, 
and  for  a  very  simple  and  obvious  reason, — they 
made  no  such  demand  upon  the  writer  of  them. 

a  a  Colton. 


REASON  — REASONING. 

Reason  can  not  show  itself  more  reasonable  than 
to  cease  reasoning  on  things  above  reason. 

Sir  P.  Sidney, 

Reasoning  implies  doubt  and  uncertainty;  there- 
fore God  does  not  reason. — Lacon. 

What  men  want  of  reason  for  their  opinions,  they 
usually  supply  and  make  up  in  rage  and  rant. 

Tilloison. 

All  reasoning  is  retrospect;  it  consists  in  the  ap- 
plication of  facts  and  principles  previously  known. 

J.  Foster. 

The  province  of  reason  as  to  matters  of  religion, 
is  the  same  as  that  of  the  eye  in  reference  to  the 
external  world ;  not  to  create  objects  of  vision,  nor 
to  sit  in  judgment  on  the  propriety  of  their  existence, 
but  simply  to  discern  them  as  they  are. — Lacon. 

Lord  Chatham,  in  his  speeches,  did  not  reason ; 
be  struck,  as  by  intuition,  directly  on  the  results  of 
reasoning — as  a  cannon  shot  strikes  the  the  mark 
without  your  seeing  its  course  through  the  air,  as  it 
moves  toward  its  object. — J.  Foster. 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  175 


Never  reason  from  what  you  do  not  know.  If 
you  do,  you  will  soon  believe  what  is  utterly  against 
reason. — Ramsey. 

Reason  shall  prevail  with  me  more  than  popular 
opinion.  I  should  prefer  my  own  judgment  to  gen- 
eral prejudice. — Cicero. 

One  can  never  repeat  too  often  that  reason,  as  it 
exists  in  man,  is  only  his  intellectual  eye,  and  that, 
like  the  eye,  to  see,  it  needs  light — to  see  clearly 
and  far,  it  needs  the  light  of  heaven. — Anonymous, 

He  who  will  not  reason  is  a  bigot,  he  who  can  not 
reason  is  a  fool,  and  he  that  dare  not  reason  is  a 
slave. — Sir  W.  Drummond. 

Let  reason  be  thy  school-mistress,  which  shall 
ever  guide  thee  aright. 

Sir  Walter  Raleigh  to  his  son. 


RELIGION. 

Pure^religion  and  undefiled  before  God  the  Father 
is  this  :  "  To  visit  the  fatherless  and  the  widows  in 
their  affliction,  and  to  keep  himself  unspotted  from 
the  world. — James  1 :  27. 

If  I  could  choose  what  of  all  things  would  be  at 
the  same  time  the  most  useful  and  delightful  to  me, 
I  would  prefer  a  firm  religious  belief  to  every  other 
blessing. — Sir  H.  Davy. 


176  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Religion  is  such  a  belief  of  the  Bible,  as  maintains 
a  living  influence  on  the  heart  and  life. — Cecil. 

The  religion  of  Christ  reaches  and  changes  the 
heart,  which  no  other  religion  does. — Ramsey. 

Take  away  God  and  religion,  and  men  live  to  no 
conceivable  purpose. — Tillotson. 

The  moral  virtues,  without  religion,  are  but  cold, 
lifeless,  and  insipid. — Addison. 

Religion  is  the  best  armor  in  the  world. — Newton. 

Whether  religion  be  true  or  false,  it  must  be 
necessarily  granted  to  be  the  only  wise  principle. 

Tillotson. 

The  greatest  actions,  not  animated  by  religion, 
have  no  other  principle  than  pride. 

Marquis  of  Halifax. 

Indisputably  the  believers  in  the  Gospel  have  a 
great  advantage  over  all  others. — Lord  Byron. 

Men  will  wrangle  for  religion,  write  for  it,  fight 
for  it,  die  for  it,  any  thing  but  live  for  it. — Colton. 

How  admirable  is  that  religion,  which,  while  it  seems 
to  have  in  view  only  the  felicity  of  another  world, 
is  at  the  same  time  the  highest  happiness  of  this. 

3Iontesquieu. 

Religion  is  the  great  ornament  and  glory  of 
human  nature. — Dr.  Sam.  Clark. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  177 


Should  a  man  happen  to  err  in  supposing  the 
Christian  religion  to  be  true,  he  could  not  be  a  loser 
by  the  mistake. — Pascal. 

Of  all  the  dispositions  and  habits  which  lead  to 
political  prosperity,  religion  and  morality  are  indis- 
pensable supports. —  Washington. 

Blot  Christianity  out  of  the  page  of  man's  history, 
and  what  would  his  laws  have  been, — what  his  civi- 
lization ? — Sir  A.  Park. 

Tell  me  where  the  Protestant  religion  and  the 
Bible  are,  and  where  they  are  not,  and  I  will  write 
a  moral  geography  of  the  world. —  W.  Adams. 

A  city  may  as  well  be  built  in  the  air,  as  a  com- 
monwealth or  kingdom  be  either  constituted  or  pre- 
served without  the  support  of  religion. — Plutarch, 

The  Christian  religion  is  one  that  diffuses  among 
the  people,  a  pure,  benevolent,  and  universal  system 
of  ethics,  adapted  to  every  condition  of  life. — Gribbon. 

The  Christian  religion  is  one  that  dares  to  be  un- 
derstood ;  that  offers  itself  to  the  search  of  the  in- 
quisitive, and  to  the  inspection  of  the  severest  and 
most  awakened  reason. — Johnson. 

Where  there  is  not  enough  sound,  enlightened  re- 
ligion to  clothe  the  law  with  energy,  and  produce 
self-government  among  the  people,  a  calm,  well 
regulated  liberty  is  out  of  the  question. 


178  BOOK   OP  THOUGHT. 


We  know,  and  what  is  better,  we  feel,  that  religion 
is  the  basis  of  civil  society,  and  the  source  of  all 
good  and  of  all  comfort. — Burke. 

Religion  is  a  necessary,  an  indispensable  element 
in  any  great  human  character. — Daniel  Webster. 

I  believe  the  fate  of  a  republican  government  is 
indissolubly  bound  up  with  the  fate  of  the  Christian 
religion ;  and  that  a  people  who  reject  its  holy  faith 
will  find  themselves  the  slaves  of  their  own  evil  pas- 
sions, and  of  arbitrary  power. — Cass. 

Educate  men  without  religion,  and  you  make  them 
but  clever  devils. — Duke  of  Wellington. 

A  man  devoid  of  religion  is  like  a  horse  without  a 
bridle. — Latin  Proverb. 

The  celebrated  Claude,  said  on  his  death-bed ;  "  I 
have  carefully  examined  all  religions;  and  no  one 
appears  to  me  worthy  of  the  wisdom  of  God,  and 
capable  of  leading  men  to  happiness,  but  the  Chris- 
tian religion." 

All  who  have  been  great  and  good  without  Chris- 
tianity, would  have  been  much  greater  and  better 
with  it. — Colton. 

Political  and  professional  fame  fade  and  die  with 
all  things  earthly,  but  a  conscience  void  of  offence 
before  God  and  .man,  is  an  inheritance  for  eternity. 

Daniel  Webster. 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  179 


The  Christian  religion  is  the  precursor  of  civiliza- 
tion, in  all  benighted  lands  of  earth : — the  great 
efficient  instrumentality. 

God  to  love  and  serve, 
With  all  our  powers — with  all  our  heart,  and  soul, 
And  mind,  and  strength ;  and  as  ourselves  to  love 
Our  neighbor,  this  is  religion ;  this  doth  God 
Demand,  and  only  this  can  bear  the  test 
Of  conscience  here — hereafter  of  judgment. — Miller. 

There  is  nothing  wanting  to  make  all  rational  and 
disinterested  men  and  people  in  the  world,  of  one 
religion,  but  that  they  should  talk  together  every 
day. — Po;pe. 

Place  not  thy  amendment  only  in  increasing  thy 
devotion,  but  in  bettering  thy  life.  This  is  the 
damning  hypocrisy  of  this  age ;  that  it  slights  all 
good  morality,  and  spends  its  zeal  in  matters  of  cer- 
emony, and  a  form  of  Godliness  without  the  power 
of  ii.—FuLl(r. 

It  was  religion,  which,  by  teaching  men  their  near 
relation  to  God,  awakened  in  them  the  consciousness 
of  their  importance  as  individuals.  It  was  the  strug- 
gle for  religious  rights,  which  opened  their  eyes  to 
all  their  rights.  It  was  resistance  to  religious  usur- 
pation, which  led  men  to  withstand  political  oppres- 
sion. It  was  religious  discussion,  which  roused  the 
minds  of  all  classes  to  free  and  vigorous  thought. 
It -was  religion  which  armed  the  martyr  and  patriot 


180  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


in  England  against  arbitrary  power ;  which  braced 
the  spirits  of  our  fathers  against  the  perils  of  the 
ocean  and  wilderness,  and  sent  them  to  found  here 
the  freest  and  most  equal  state  on  earth. 

Wm.  E.  Charming. 

The  religion  of  the  Gospel  has  power — immense 
power,  over  mankind ;  direct  and  indirect,  positive 
and  negative,  restraining  and  aggressive.  Civiliza- 
tion, law,  order,  morality,  the  family,  all  that  elevates 
woman,  or  blesses  society,  or  gives  peace  to  the  na- 
tions, all  these  are  the  fruits  of  Christianity,  the  full 
power  of  which,  even  for  this  world,  could  never  be 
appreciated  till  it  should  be  taken  away. 

T.  Edwards. 

Keligion  is  more  needed  in  democratic  republics 
than  in  any  others.  What  can  be  done  with  a  peo- 
ple which  is  its  own  master,  if  it  be  not  submissive 
to  the  Divinity? — De  Toqueville. 

Religion  itself,  in  its  essence,  is  perfect ;  as  a  rule 
and  standard,  it  is  unerring ;  nor  can  it  be  affected 
by  the  inconsistencies  or  imperfections  of  its  profes- 
sors ;  the  standard  remains  the  same,  the  balances 
are  true ;  but  when  its  professors  are  weighed 
therein — even  the  very  best  of  them — they  are  found 
wanting. — Cecil. 

Supposing  Christianity  to  be  a  human  invention, 
it  is  the  most  amiable  and  successful  invention  that 
ever  was  imposed  on  mankind  for  their  good. 

Lord  Bolinghroke. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  181 


REPENTANCE. 

True  repentance  consists  in  the  heart  broken  for 
sin,  and  broken  from  sin. —  Thornton. 

Repentance  does  not  consist  in  one  single  act  of 
sorrow,  but  in  doing  works  meet  for  repentance,  in 
a  sincere  obedience  to  the  law  of  Christ,  for  the 
remainder  of  our  lives. — Dr.  Locke. 

Repentance  without  amendment,  is  like  continu- 
ally pumping  the  ship  without  mending  the  leak. 

Dilwyn. 

He  that  waits  for  repentance,  waits  for  that  which 
can  not  be  had  as  long  as  waited  for.  It  is  absurd 
for  a  man  to  wait  for  that  which  he  himself  has  to 
do. — Nevins. 

When  a  man  undertakes  to  repent  towards  his 
fellow  men,  it  is  repenting  strait  up  a  precipice ; 
when  he  repents  towards  law,  it  is  repenting  into 
the  crocodile's  jaws ;  when  he  repents  towards  pub- 
lic sentiment,  it  is  throwing  himself  into  a  thicket 
of  brambles  and  thorns ;  but  when  he  repents  towards 
God,  he  repents  towards  all  love  and  delicacy.  God 
receives  the  soul  as  the  sea  the  bather,  to  return  it 
purer  and  whiter  than  He  took  it. 

H.  Ward  Beecher. 

Deferred  repentance,  in  generous  natures,  is  a 
greater  pain  than  would  be  the  sorrow  of  real  repen- 
tance. Manly  regret  for  wrong  never  weakens,  but 
always  strengthens  the  heart. — Ibid. 


182  BOOK   OF  THOUGHT. 


Repentance  is  the  heart's  sorrow, 
And  a  clear  life  ensuing. — Shakspeare. 

The  seeds  of  repentance  are  sown  in  youth  by 
pleasure,  but  reaped  in  age  by  pain. — Cotton. 

The  slightest  sorrow  for  sin  is  sufficient,  if  it  pro- 
duce amendment,  and  the  greatest  is  insufficient,  if 
it  do  not. — Ibid. 


REVENGE— FORGIVENESS. 

Revenge,  we  find, 
The  abject  pleasure  of  an  abject  mind. — CHfford. 

Revenge,  at  first  though  sweet, 
Bitter,  ere  long,  back  on  itself  recoils. — Milton. 

By  taking  revenge,  a  man  is  but  even  with  his 
enemy ;  but  by  passing  it  over,  he  is  superior. 

Lord  Bacon. 

Revenge  is  always  the  pleasure  of  a  little,  weak, 
and  narrow  mind.  No  man  of  an  enlarged  under- 
standing indulges  in  so  dark  a  passion. — Juvenal. 

Common  revenge  is  a  momentary  triumph;  the 
satisfaction  of  which  dies  at  once,  and  is  succeeded 
by  remorse ;  whereas  forgiveness,  which  is  the  no- 
blest of  all  revenges,  entails  perpetual  pleasure. 

If  we  frequently  and  carefully  survey  all  our  own 
defects,  we  can  easily  forgive  those  of  others. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Newell  Cutter. 


BOOK   OF  THOUOHT.  183 


There  never  was  but  one  perfect  character  on 
earth,  and  he  was  the  most  tender  and  compassionate 
tOAvards  the  imperfections  of  men.  He  pitied  where 
men  blamed,  and  defended  where  they  condemned. 

CecU. 

Kneel  not  to  me  : 
The  power  that  I  have  on  you,  is  to  spare  you ; 
The  malice  towards  you,  to  forgive  you ;  live, 
And  deal  with  others  better. — Shakspeare. 


RICHES  — GOLD— WEALTH. 

Gold  is  worse  poison  to  men's  souls. 

Doing  more  murders  in  this  loathesome  world. 

Than  any  mortal  drug. — Shakspeare. 

Oh,  cursed  love  of  gold  ;  when  for  thy  sake, 
The  fool  throws  up  his  interest  in  both  worlds, 
First  starved  in  this,  then  damned  in  that  to  come. 

Blair, 

The  lust  of  gold ;  unfeeling  and  remorseless. 
The  last  corruption  of  degenerate  man. 

Johnson. 

Of  great  riches  there  is  no  real  use,  except  it  be 
in  the  proper  distribution. — Lord  Bacon. 

Misery  assails  riches,  as  lightning  does  the  high- 
est towers ;  or  as  the  tree  that  is  heavy  laden  with 
fruit  breaks  its  own  boughs,  so  does  riches  destroy 
the  virtue  of  its  possessor. — Burton. 


184  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


We  wear  out  our  energies  in  pursuit  of  gold  or 
fame,  and  then  wonder  alike  at  the  cost  and  worth- 
lessness  of  the  meed. — Horace  Greely. 

No  amount  of  wealth,  however  immense,  can  give 
ease  and  comfort  to  the  human  heart.  In  a  letter 
to  a  friend,  Stephen  Girard  once  said :  "  As  to  my- 
self, I  live  like  a  gaily  slave,  constantly  occupied — 
often  passing  the  night  without  sleeping.  I  am 
wrapped  up  in  a  labyrinth  of  affairs,  worn  out  with 
cares.  I  do  not  value  fortune.  The  love  of  labor 
is  my  highest  emotion.  When  I  arise  in  the  morn- 
ing, my  only  effort  is  to  labor  so  hard  during  the 
day,  that  when  night  comes  I  may  be  enabled  to 
sleep  soundly." — Mrs.  R.  31orrelL 

That  wealth  which  is  acquired  by  so  much  labor 
and  so  many  privations,  can  be  preserved  only  by 
greater  anxiety  and  solicitude. — Juvenal. 

The  greatest  and  the  most  amiable  privilege  the 
rich  enjoy  over  the  poor,  is  that  which  they  exercise 
the  least, — the  privilege  of  making  them  happy. 

CoUon. 

The  rich  man's  wealth  is  his  strong  city,  and  as 
an  high  wall  in  his  own  conceit. — Solomon. 

He  has  lived  to  little  purpose,  who  has  not  realized 
that  wealth  and  renown  are  not  the  true  ends  of  ex- 
ertion, nor  their  absence  the  conclusive  proof  of  ill 
fortune. — Greely. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  185 


There  is  a  greater  amount  of  miseries  on  the  other 
side  of  riches,  than  on  this  side. 

"The  maddest  and  the  saddest  lives  have  been  spent 
in  the  pursuit  or  accumulation  of  riches." 

To  whom  can  riches  give  repute  or  trust, 
Content  or  pleasure,  but  the  good  and  just. 

Pope. 

He  who  is  truly  possessed  of  piety  and  knowledge 
is  truly  rich.  Solomon  says :  "  A  little  that  a 
righteous  man  hath,  is  better  than  the  riches  of 
many  wicked." — Miss  Myrtilla  Morrell. 

Syrus  says,  "  that  man  has  the  fewest  wants,  who 
is  the  least  anxious  for  wealth."  Horace  says,  "the 
accumulation  of  wealth  is  followed  by  an  increase  of 
care,  and  by  an  appetite  for  more." 

Mrs.  H.  Ann  Jones. 

An  inheritance  may  be  gotten  hastily  at  the 
beginning,  but  the  end  thereof  shall  not  be  blessed. 

God. 

He  makes  the  best  use  of  riches,  who  has  the 
fewest  personal  wants. — Seneca. 

If  thou  art  rich,  then  show  the  greatness  of  thy 
soul,  in  the  meekness  of  thy  conversation ;  "  conde- 
scend to  men  of  low  estate ;"  support  the  distressed, 
and  patronize  the  neglected.  Be  great,  but  let  it  be 
in  considering  riches  as  they  are — as  talents  commit- 
ted to  an  earthen  vessel. — Sterne. 

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186  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


The  great  mass  of  mankind  now  worship  gold,  all 
other  reverence  having  almost  ceased  to  be.  The 
present  age  has  become  so  venal,  that  nothing  is  re- 
spected but  wealth  and  its  possessors. —  Wm.  T.  Jones. 

Men  pursue  riches  under  the  idea  that  their  pos- 
sessions will  set  them  at  ease,  and  above  the  world. 
But  the  law  of  association  often  makes  those  who 
begin  by  loving  gold  as  a  servant,  finish  by  becoming 
themselves  its  slave. — Colton. 

The  love  of  money  is  the  root  of  all  evil. — God. 

Agar  said :  "  give  me  neither  poverty  nor  riches," 
and  this  is  a  wise  man's  prayer.  Our  incomes  should 
be  like  our  shoes:  if  too  small  they  will  pinch  and 
gall  us ;  but  if  too  large,  they  will  cause  us  to  stum- 
ble and  trip.  But  wealth,  after  all,  is  a  relative 
thing,  since  he  that  has  but  little,  and  wants  less,  is 
richer  than  he  who  has  much,  but  wants  more.  True 
content  depends  not  upon  what  we  have ;  a  tub  was 
large  enough  for  Diogones,  but  a  world  was  too 
small  for  Alexander. — Colton. 

Riches  profit  not  in  the  day  of  wrath. — Prov.ll :  4. 

When  Garrick  showed  Dr.  Johnson  his  fine  house, 
gardens,  statues,  costly  pictures,  etc.,  at  Hampton 
Court,  what  ideas  did  it  awaken  in  that  great  man ! 
Instead  of  a  flattering  compliment,  which  was  ex- 
pected, "  ah !  David,  David,"  said  the  Doctor,  "  these 
are  things  which  make  a  death  bed  terrible." 

Rev.  John  Allen. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  187 


How  hardly  shall  they  that  have  riches  enter  into 
the  kingdom  of  God.— Ifar^  10 :  23. 

Nagos,  the  Scythian,  despising  the  rich  presents 
and  ornaments  sent  him  by  the  emperor  of  Constan- 
tinople, asked,  "  whether  those  things  could  drive 
away  calamities,  disease,  or  death. — Daily  Monitor. 

I  desire  riches  no  more  than  a  feeble  beast  desires 
a  heavy  burden. — JSrasmus. 

For  what  is  a  man  profited  if  he  shall  gain  the 
world,  and  lose  his  own  soul. — God. 


R  U  ^I  0  R  . 

Rumor  is  slander's  swift-footed  riding  horse. 

Common  rumor  is  a  common  liar. 

On  rumor's  tongues 
Continual  slanders  ride. — Shakspeare. 

Rumor  is  a  pipe 
Blown  by  surmises,  jealousies,  conjectures  ; 
And  of  so  easy  and  so  plain  a  stop, 
That  the  blunt  monster  with  uncounted  heads, 
The  still  discordant  wavering  multitude, 
Can  play  upon  it. — Shakspeare. 


188  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


SEDUCTION. 

By  heaven  !  I  would  rather  forever  forswear 
The  elysium  that  dwells  in  a  beautiful  breast, 
Than  alarm  for  a  moment  the  peace  that  is  there, 
Or  banish  the  dove  from  so  hallow'd  a  nest. 

31oore. 
When  women  send  the  seduced  to  Coventry,  but 
countenance  and  even  court  the  seducer,  ought  we 
not  to  wonder  if  seductions  were  rare  ? — Colton. 

Is  there,  in  human  form,  that  bears  a  heart — 
A  wretch  !  a  villain !  lost  to  love  and  truth ! 

That  can,  with  studied,  sly,  ensnaring  art, 
Betray  sweet  Jenny's  unsuspecting  youth  ? 

Curse  on  his  perjured  arts  !  dissembling  smooth  ! 
Are  honor,  virtue,  conscience,  all  exiled  ? 

Is  there  no  pity,  no  relenting  ruth. 

Points  to  the  parents  fondling  o'er  their  child, 
Then  paints  the  ruined  maid,  and  their  distrac- 
tion wild  ? — Burns. 

An  open  foe  may  prove  a  curse. 

But  a  pretended  friend  is  worse. —  Gay. 

Ah,  turn  thine  eyes, 
Where  the  poor  houseless,  shivering  female  lies ; 
She,  once  perhaps,  in  village  plenty  blest, 
Has  wept  at  tales  of  innocence  distressed  ; 
Her  modest  looks  the  cottage  might  adorn. 
Sweet  as  the  primrose  peeps  beneath  the  thorn  : 
Now  lost  to  all ;  her  friends,  her  virtue  fled, 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  189 


Near  her  betrayer's  door  she  lays  her  head, 

And,  pinch'd  with  cold,  and   shrinking   frona   the 

show'r, 
With  heavy  heart  deplores  that  luckless  hour, 
When  idly  first,  ambitious  of  the  town. 
She  left  her  wheel  and  robes  of  country  brown. 

Goldsmith. 

Then  weigh  what  loss  your  honor  may  sustain, 

If  with  too  credent  ear  you  list  his  songs  ; 

Or  lose  your  heart ;  or  your  chaste  treasure  open 

To  his  unmaster'd  importunity. 

Fear  it,  fear  it,  my  dear  sister ; 

And  keep  you  in  the  rear  of  your  affection. 

Out  of  the  shot  and  danger  of  desire. — Shakspeare. 


SELF. 

Solon,  one  of  the  seven  sages,  held  that  all  wisdom 
centered  in  the  precept,  "  know  thyself."  There  is 
nothing  more  difficult,  however,  than  this  species  of 
knowledge. — 31rs.  Fredonia  Pitts. 

A  watchful,  humble  distrust  of  self  is  the  parent 
of  many  virtues  and  wards  off  many  an  evil. 

R.  B.  Cutter. 

There  is  some  wisdom  in  the  prayer  of  one  of  the 
ancients,  "  deliver  me  from  my  friends,  I  can  protect 
myself  against  my  enemies."  But,  "save  me  from 
myself,''  is  a  wiser  prayer;  for  man  is  his  own  worst 
enemy. — Mrs.  H.  Ann  Jones. 


190  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Obstinacy,  self-sufficiency,  and  the  belief  in  his 
own  infallibility,  are  the  strongest  proofs  of  folly 
any  man  can  give,  for  he  places  implicit  confi- 
dence in  that  grand  deceiver  Self. 

The  -weakest  spot  in  every  man,  is  where  he  thinks 
himself  the  wisest. — Ummotis. 


SINCERITY. 

Sincerity  is,  to  speak  as  we  think,  to  do  as  we 
profess,  to  make  good  all  our  promises,  and  really  to 
be  what  we  would  appear  to  be. — Tillotson. 

Thou  first  of  virtues,  let  no  mortal  leave 
Thy  onward  path,  although  the  earth  should  gape, 
And  from  the  gulf  of  hell  destruction  rise — 
To  take  dissimulation's  winding  way. — Home. 

Sincerity  is  like  traveling  on  a  plain,  beaten  road, 
■which  commonly  brings  a  man  sooner  to  his  jour- 
ney's end  than  by-ways,  in  which  men  often  lose 
themselves. — Tillotson. 

His  words  are  bonds,  his  oaths  are  oracles  ; 
His  love  sincere,  his  thoughts  immaculate  ; 
His  tears,  pure  messengers  sent  from  his  heart; 
His  heart  as  far  from  fraud,  as  heaven  from  earth. 

Shakspeare. 

If  the  show  of  any  thing  be  good  for  any  thing,  I 
am  sure  sincerity  is  better ;  for  why  does  any  man 


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dissemble,  or  seem  to  be  that  which  he  is  not,  but 
because  he  thinks  it  good  to  have  such  a  quality  as 
be  pretends  to. — Tillotson. 

It  would  be  infinitely  better  for  mankind,  if  they 
used  much  less  compliments,  and  very  much  more 
sincerity. — Mrs.  JR.  Morrell. 


SKEPTICISM. 

As  the  man  of  pleasure,  by  a  vain  attempt  to  be 
more  happy  than  any  man  can  be,  is  often  more 
miserable  than  most  men  are ;  so  the  skeptic,  in  a 
vain  attempt  to  be  wise  beyond  what  is  permitted  to 
man,  plunges  into  a  darkness  more  deplorable,  and 
a  blindness  more  incurable  than  that  of  the  common 
herd,  whom  he  despises,  and  would  fain  instruct. 

Colton. 


SLANDER— DETRACTION— CALUMNY- 
SCANDAL. 

Fire  and  sword  are  but  slow  engines  of  destruc- 
tion, in  comparison  with  the  babbler. — Steele. 

"  Oh !  slander,  thy  envenomed  tongue  concentrates 
the  malice  of  all  things !  " 

There  is  a  lust  in  man  no  charm  can  tame. 
Of  loudly  publishing  his  neighbor's  shame. 

Pope. 


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To  ingratiate  some  by  slandering  others,  is  a  pre- 
vailing sin,  and  marks  a  very  base  mind. 

We  can  not  control  the  slanderous  tongues  of 
others,  but  a  good  life  enables  us  to  despise  them. 

Cato. 

On  eagle's  wings  immortal  scandals  fly, 

While  virtuous  actions  are  but  born  to  die. — Pope. 

Slander  meets  no  regard  from  noble  minds ; 
Only  the  base  believe  what  the  base  only  utter. 

Slander ; 
Whose  edge  is  sharper  than  the  sword ;  whose  tongue 
Outvenoms  all  the  worms  of  Nile ;  whose  breath 
Rides  on  posting  winds,  and  doth  belie 
All  corners  of  the  world ;  kings,  queens,  and  states. 
Maids,  matrons,  nay,  the  secrets  of  the  grave 
This  viprous  slander  enters. — Shakspeare. 

Slanderers  are  like  flies,  which  pass  all  over  a 
man's  sound  parts,  and  light  only  on  his  sores. 

Rule  of  Life. 

He  that  stabs  my  name  would  stab  my  person  too, 
Did  not  the  hangman's  axe  lie  in  the  way. — Crown. 

Whoso  privily  slandereth  his  neighbor,  him  will  I 
cut  oflF.— P«.  101 :  5. 

Slander  strikes  a  double  blow,  wounding  both  him 
that  commits  it,  and  him  against  whom  it  is  com- 
mitted.— Saurin. 


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Slander  is  the  revenge  of  a  coward,  and  dissimu- 
lation his  defence. — Johnson. 

Thou  shalt  not  go  up  and  down  as  a  tale-bearer 
among  thy  people. — Lev.  19  :  16. 

Who  steals  my  purse  steals  trash, 
But  he  who  filches  from  me  my  good  name, 
Robs  me  of  that  which  enriches  not  him, 
And  makes  me  poor  indeed. — Shahspeare. 

Slander  crosses  oceans,  scales  mountains,  traver- 
ses deserts,  with  greater  ease  than  the  Scythian 
Abaris ;  and  like  him,  rides  on  a  poisoned  arrow. 

Colton. 

Believe  nothing  against  another  but  on  good 
authority ;  never  report  what  may  injure  another's 
character,  unless  it  be  a  greater  hui-t  to  another  to 
conceal  it. —  Wm.  Penn. 

How  often  does  the  reputation  of  a  poor  helpless 
creature  bleed  by  a  slanderous  report. — Sterne. 

A  slanderer  felt  a  serpent  bite  his  side. 

What  followed  from  the  bite  ?     The  serpent  died  ! 

Many  a  wretch  has  rode  on  a  hurdle,  who  has 
done  much  less  mischief  than  utterers  of  forged 
tales,  coiners  of  scandal,  and  clippers  of  reputation. 

Sheridan. 

Much  chastity  is  nodded  away  and  cruelly  winked 
into  suspicion,  by  the  distant  hints  of  the  envious. 
(17) 


194  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


The  worthiest  people  are  most  injured  by  slander; 
as  we  usually  find  that  to  be  the  best  fruit  which  the 
birds  have  picked  at, — Swift. 

In  all  cases  of  slander  currency,  whenever  the 
forger  of  the  lie  is  not  to  be  found,  the  injured  party 
should  have  a  right  to  come  on  any  of  the  endorsers. 

Sheridan, 

No  man  who  circulates  a  slander,  would  scruple 
for  a  moment  to  forge  it. — Mrs.  Fredonia  Pitts. 

If  the  divines  rightly  infer  from  the  sixth  com- 
mandment—  ^^  thou  shalt  not  kill"  —  scandalizing 
one's  neighbor  with  false  malicious  reports,  whereby 
I  vex  his  spirit,  and  consequently  impair  his  health, 
is  a  degree  of  murder. — iSir  W.  Raleigh. 

Of  tame  beasts,  the  worst  is  the  flatterer ;  of  wild, 
the  slanderer. —  Warwick. 

The  slanderer  often  succeeds  in  lowering  others, 
but  never,  as  he  seems  to  suppose,  elevates  himself 
to  their  former  position. 

"  Boerhave,"  says  Johnson,  "  was  never  soured 
by  calumny  and  detraction,  nor  ever  thought  it 
necessary  to  confute  them ;  for,  said  he,  they  are 
sparks  which,  if  you  do  not  blow,  will  go  out  of 
themselves." 

Contempt  of  calumny  puts  it  to  death,  whereas 
resentment  only  revives  it. — D.  B.  Adams,  M.  D. 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  195 


Show  no  counteance  to  a  person  who  is  given  to 
detraction.  To  hear  such  a  person  patiently,  is  no 
more  nor  less  than  to  partake  of  his  guilt,  and  en- 
courage him  in  the  continuance  of  the  vile  and  cruel 
sin,  for  which  all  good  men  shun  him. — Smither. 

To  speak  a  hard  word,  especially  if  it  be  slander- 
ously spoken  against  one's  mother,  is  more  cruel 
than  to  plunge  a  dagger  into  our  heart.  Much  more 
piercing  is  the  pain,  if  she  be  moldering  beneath  the 
clods  of  the  valley. — Mrn.  H.  Ann  Jones. 

Curst  be  the  tongue, 
Whence  slanderous  rumor,  like  the  adder's  drop 
Distils  her  venom,  withering  friendship's  faith, 
Turning  love's  favor. — Hillhouse. 

Were  all  slander,  gossiping,  and  dissimulation  ban- 
ished from  the  earth,  what  an  amount  of  sorrow,  and 
hatred,  and  soul-corroding  disquiet  would  go  with 
them ;  and  how  universal  would  be  the  sway  of  con- 
fidence, benevolence,  peace,  and  heaven-bestowed 
bliss  ! 

The  circle  smil'd,  then  whisper'd,  and  then  sneer'd; 
The  misses  bridl'd  and  the  matrons  frown'd ; 
Some  hoped  things  might  not  turn  out  as  they  fear'd ; 
Some  would  not  deem  such  women  could  be  found ; 
Some  ne'er  believed  one-half  of  what  they  heard ; 
Some  look'd  perplex'd,  and  others  look'd  profound ; 
And  several  pitied  with  sincere  regret 
Poor  Lord  Augustus  Fitz-Plantagenet. — Byron. 


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The  man  that  dares  traduce  because  he  can 
With  safety  to  himself,  is  not  a  man. — Cowper. 

That  abominable  tittle-tattle, 

The  cud  eschew'd  by  human  cattle. — Byron. 

When  will  talkers  refrain  from  evil-speaking  ? 
When  listeners,  refrain  from  evil-hearing. — Hare. 

Men  rarely  tell  tales  of  scandal  and  detraction, 
but  to  such  as  love  to  hear  them.  It  is  the  demand 
for  the  article  which  creatse  the  supply ;  and,  uni- 
versally, they  who  encourage  the  vile  slanderer  by 
patiently  hearing  him,  and  more  especially  if  they 
mention  it  to  others,  are  vile  slanderers  themseWes. 
It  is  then  the  duty  of  every  good  man  and  woman 
to  rebuke  and  silence  the  detracting  tongue,  by 
refusing  to  listen  to  calumny.  "  Let  all  good  per- 
sons refuse  to  make  their  ear  the  grave  of  another's 
good  name." — Mrs.  Harriet  Newell  Cutter. 


SLAVERY. 

Slavery  handcuffs  men  and  women,  and  sells,  and 
separates,  and  alienates  them  from  wife  and  child, 
brother  and  sister,  father  and  mother,  without  anyj 
charge  of  crime.  i 

The  sterling  virtues  and  religion  of  the  slave,  and 
his  faithful  obedience  in  all  things,  only  rivet  his 
chains  the  more  strongly. — Miss  A.  G.  N.  Morrell. 


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The  man  who  will  hold  a  Congo  negro  in  slavery, 
will  hold  a  mulatto  or  a  quadroon  ;  and  he  who  will 
hold  a  quadroon,  would  hold  a  white  man  if  the  law 
allowed  it.  The  old  Romans  teach  us  this  lesson. 
Their  slaves  were  of  all  colors — the  classic  Greek, 
the  jet  black  African,  and  the  blue-eyed  German. 

Lone. 

Slavery,  wherever  and  whenever,  and  in  whatso- 
ever form  it  exists,  is  exceptionable,  local,  and  short- 
lived. Freedom  is  the  common  right,  interest,  and 
ultimate  destiny  of  all  mankind. —  Wm.  H.  Seicard. 

The  people  of  the  United  States  never  Avill  accept 
the  principles,  that  one  man  can  own  other  men ; 
because  these  principles  do  not  harmonize  with  the 
Constitution  of  our  country  and  the  laws  of  nature. 

Ibid. 

Universal  individual  responsibility  to  God,  neces- 
sarily implies  universal  individual  freedom  and  en- 
lightenment of  mind ;  which  no  man  can  forfeit  but 
by  violation  of  the  laws  of  God,  in  reference  to  the 
common  rights  of  all. 

Whether  the  Africans  are  an  inferior  race  or  not, 
it  is  evident  that  our  destiny  in  some  respects  is 
bound  up  with  them,  and  the  study  of  their  interests 
is  the  study  of  our  salvation. — H.  Ward  Beecher. 


198  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


SMALL    THINGS. 

He  tliat  despiseth  small  things,  shall  fall  little  by 
little. — Eccleasiasticus. 

He  that  regardeth  small  things,  shall  rise  little  by- 
little. 

It  is  the  fixed  law  of  the  universe,  that  little 
things  are  but  parts  of  the  great. — T.  Edwards. 

It  is  more  by  disregard  to  small  things,  than  by 
open  and  flagrant  ofi"ences,  that  men  come  short  of 
excellence. — Berkeley. 

Without  mounting  by  degrees,  no  man  can  attain 
to  high  things. — Sir  P.  Sidney. 


SUCCESS. 

Not  that  which  men  do  worthily,  but  that  wliich 
they  do  successfully,  is  what  history  makes  haste  to 
record. — H.  Ward  Beecher. 

It  is  success  that  colors  all  in  life: 
Success  makes  fools  admired,  makes  villains  honest : 
All  the  proud  virtue  of  this  vaunting  world 
Fawns  on  success  and  power,  howe'er  acquired. 

Thomjjson. 

Success  is  full  of  promise  tilKmen  get  it ;  and 
then  it  is  a  last  year's  nest  from  which  the  bird  has 
flown. — M.  Ward  Beecher. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  199 


Mere  success  is  certainly  one  of  the  worst  argu- 
ments in  the  world  of  a  good  cause,  and  the  most 
improper  to  satisfy  conscience;  and  yet  we  find, 
by  experience,  that  in  the  issue,  it  is  the  most  suc- 
cessful of  all  other  arguments. —  Tilloison. 

We  should  estimate  great  men  by  their  virtues, 
and  not  by  their  success.  This  is  the  philosophic, 
but  not  the  worldly  admeasurement. — Cicero. 

He  who  is  unsuccessful,  is  generally  held  to  be  in 
the  wrong. — French  Proverb. 

Had  I  miscarried,  I  had  been  a  villain; 
For  men  judge  actions  always  by  events ; 
But  when  we  manage  by  a  just  foresight, 
Success  is  prudence,  and  possession  right. 

Siggons. 

The  great  man  down,  you  mark  his  favorite  flies ; 
The  poor  advanced  makes  friends  of  enemies. 
And  hitherto  doth  love  on  fortune  tend  : 
For  who  not  needs,  shall  never  lack  a  friend; 
And  who  in  want  a  hollow  friend  doth  try, 
Directly  seasons  him  his  enemy. — Shakspeare. 


200  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


SUSPICION. 

Always  to  think  the  worst,  I  have  ever  found  to 
be  the  mark  of  a  mean  spirit  and  a  base  soul. 

BolinghroJce. 

There  is  nothing  that  makes  a  man  suspect  much, 
more  than  to  know  little. — Lord  Bacon. 

It  is  much  better  to  be  a  dupe  through  life,  than 
to  be  suspicious  and  distrustful  of  mankind. 

One  of  the  principal  ingredients  in  the  happiness 
of  childhood,  is  freedom  fi*om  suspicion ;  and  why  may 
it  not  be  combined  with  a  more  extensive  intercourse 
with  mankind  ?  A  disposition  to  dwell  on  the  bright 
side  of  character,  is  like  gold  to  its  possessor  ;  but  to 
imagine  more  evil  than  meets  the  eye,  betrays  affinity 
for  it. — Sigourney. 

He  lowered  on  her  with  daungerous  eye-glaunce, 
Shewing  his  nature  in  his  countenaunce  ; 
His  rolling  eies  did  never  rest  in  place, 
But  walkte  each  where  for  feare  of  hid  mischaunce, 
Holding  a  lattis  still  before  his  face, 
Through  which  he  still  did  peep  as  forward  he  did 
pace. — Spencer. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  201 


SYMPATHY. 

One  of  the  greatest  of  all  mental  pleasures  is,  to 
have  our  thoughts  often  divined,  ever  entered  into 
■with  sympathy. — L.  E.  Landon. 

To  rejoice  in  another's  prosperity,  is  to  give  con- 
tent to  your  own  lot ;  to  mitigate  another's  grief,  is 
to  alleviate  or  dispel  your  own. — Edwards. 

Sympathy  is  one  of  the  primal  principles  of 
efficient  genius.  It  is  the  truth  of  feeling  which 
enahled  Shakspeare  to  depict  so  strongly  the  various 
stages  of  passion,  and  the  depth,  growth,  and  grada- 
dations  of  sentiment.  It  is  by  their  sympathy,  their 
sincere  and  universal  interest  in  humanity,  that  the 
sweetest  poets,  and  the  most  renowned  dramatists, 
are  enabled  to  write  in  a  manner  corresponding 
with  the  heaven-attuned,  unwritten  music  of  the 
human  heart. — Tucherman. 

No  radiant  pearl,  which  crested  fortune  wears, 
No  gem,  that  twinkling  hangs  from  beauty's  ears ; 
Not  the  bright  stars,  which  night's  blue  arch  adorn; 
Nor  rising  sun,  that  gilds  the  vernal  morn ; 
Shine  with  such  lustre  as  the  tear  that  flows ; 
Down  virtue's  manly  cheek  for  other's  woes. 

Darwin. 

The  generous  heart 
Should  scorn  a  pleasure  which  gives  others  pain. 

Thompson, 


202  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


The   human   countenance   smiles   on   those   "who 
smile,  and  weeps  with  those  who  weep. — Horace, 


SLANDER  AND  FLATTERY. 

"It  is  difficult  to  determine  which  should  be  most 
detested,  slander  or  fulsome  flattery.  Perhaps  the 
former  is  the  worst,  and  the  latter  the  most  con- 
temptible. The  one  is  the  poison  of  the  serpent,  and 
the  other  his  slime." 


TALKING  — SILENCE. 

There  are  braying  men  as  well  as  braying  asses ; 
for  what's  loud  and  senseless  talking  and  swearing, 
any  other  than  braying. — Sir  Roger  L' Estrange. 

A  wise  man  reflects  before  he  speaks;  a  fool 
speaks  and  then  reflects  on  what  he  has  uttered. 

"i  From  the  French. 

Those  who  have  few  affairs  to  attend  to,  are  great 
talkers.     The  less  men  think  the  more  they  talk. 

3Io7itesquieu. 

He  who  indulges  in  liberty  of  speech,  will  fre- 
quently hear  things  in  return  which  he  will  not  like. 

Terrence. 

He  can  never  speak  well  who  knows  not  how  to 
hold  his  peace. 


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Speaking  much  is  a  sign  of  vanity ;  for  he  that  is 
lavish  in  words,  is  a  niggard  in  deeds. 

Sir  Walter  Raleigh. 

A  dearth  of  words  a  woman  need  not  fear; 
But  'tis  a  task  indeed  to  learn — to  hear. 
In  that  the  skill  of  conversation  lies ; 
That  shows  or  makes  you  both  polite  and  wise. 

Young. 

Such  as  thy  words  are,  such  will  thy  affections  be 
esteemed  ;  and  such  will  thy  deeds  as  thy  affections  ; 
and  such  thy  life  as  thy  deeds. — Socrates. 

Of  all  virtues,  Zeno  made  choice  of  silence ;  for 
by  it,  said  he,  I  hear  other  men's  imperfections,  and 
conceal  my  own. — Rule  of  life. 

Silence  is  a  great  virtue ;  it  covers  folly,  keeps 
secrets,  avoids  disputes,  and  prevents  sin. — Penn. 

Speak  but  little  and  well,  if  you  would  be  esteemed 
a  man  of  merit. 

If  we  were  as  eloquent  as  angels,  we  would  please 
some  men,  some  women,  and  some  children,  much 
more  by  listening,  than  by  speaking. — Oolton. 

Xenocrates,  keeping  silence  in  time  of  a  distract- 
ing discourse,  was  asked  why  he  did  not  speak. 
*'  Because,"  said  he,  "  I  have  sometimes  repented 
of  having  spoken,  but  very  seldom  of  having  held 
my  peace." 


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Learn  to  liold  thy  tongue.    Five  words  cost  Zach- 
arias  forty  weeks'  silence. — Fuller 

Thou  may'st  esteem  a  man   of  many  words,  and 
one  of  many  lies  much  alike. — Fuller. 


TEMPER,  GOOD  AND  BAD. 

Temper  is  the  only  thing  ungoverned,  whilst  it 
governs  all  the  rest. — Shaftsbury. 

Of  all  bad  things  by  which  mankind  are  cursed, 
Their  own  bad  tempers  surely  are  the  worst. 

Cumberland. 

Inviolable  fidelty,  good  humor,  and  complacency 
of  temper,  outlive  all  the  charms  of  a  fine  fuce,  and 
make  the  decays  of  it  invisible. —  Taller. 

It  is  impossible  that  an  ill-natured  man  can  be 
public  spirited ;  for  how  can  he  love  ten  thousand 
men,  who  never  loved  one  ? — Po^e. 

A  bad  temper  is  a  great  curse  to  its  possessor, 
and  itS  influenco  is  most  deadly  wherever  it  is  found. 
To  hear  a  constant  round  of  complaint  and  murmur- 
ing, to  have  every  pleasant  thought  scared  away  by 
this  evil  spirit,  is  a  sore  trial. 

One  who  has  suffered  by  it. 

The  mind  revolts  against  censorian  power,  which 
displays  pride  or  pleasure,  in  finding  fault. 

Perdval, 


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There  is  no  business  in  which  the  investment 
yields  so  small  a  profit,  as  in  the  scolding  business. 

Experience. 

Coolness,  and  absense  of  heat  and  haste,  indicate 
fine  qualities.  A  gentleman  makes  no  noise,  a  lady 
is  always  serene. — R.  W.  Emerson. 

Good  nature  is  the  very  air  of  a  good  mind ;  the 
sign  of  a  large  and  generous  soul  ;  and  the  peculiar 
soil  in  which  virtue  prospers. — Goodman. 

There's  not  in  nature, 
A  thing  that  makes  a  man  so  deformed,  so  beastly, 
As  doth  intemperate  anger. — John,  Webster. 


TEMPTATION. 

Bearing  up  against  temptations,  and  prevailing 
over  them,  is  that  in  which  the  Avhole  life  of  religion 
consists.  It  is  the  trial  which  God  puts  upon  us  in 
this  world,  by  which  we  are  to  make  evidence  of  our 
love  and  obedience  to  him,  and  of  our  fitness  to  be 
made  members  of  his  kingdom. — Dr.  Sam.  Clark. 

Ah  then,  ye  fair, 
Be  greatly  cautious  of  your  sliding  hearts ; 
Dare  not  the  infectious  sigh;  the  pleading  look, 
Downcast,  and  low,  in  meek  submission  drest. 
But  full  of  guile.     Let  not  the  serpent  tongue. 
Prompt  to  deceive,  with  adulation  smooth, 
Gain  on  your  purposed  will. — Thom-pson. 


20S  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


The  man  who  pauses  on  his  honesty- 
Wants  little  of  the  villain. — 3Iartyn. 


THEATERS. 

The  infidel  philosopher,  Rosseau,  declared  himself 
to  be  of  the  opinion,  that  the  theater  is,  in  all  cases, 
a  seat  of  vice. 

Ovid,  in  a  grave  work  addressed  to  Augustus, 
advises  the  suppression  of  theatrical  amusements  as 
a  great  source  of  curruption. 

Dr.  Rush  was  a  great  enemy  to  theatrical  amuse- 
ments. He  was  once  in  conversation  with  a  lady,  a 
professor  of  religion,  who  was  speaking  of  the 
pleasure  she  anticipated  at  the  theater  in  the  even- 
ing. "What,  madam,"  said  he,  "do  you  go  to  the 
theater  ?  "  "I  do,"  was  the  reply  ;  "  and  don't  you 
go,  doctor?"  "No,  madam,"  said  he,  "I  never  go 
to  such  places."  "  Why,  sir,  do  you  not  go  ?  Do 
you  think  it  sinful  ?  "  said  she.  He  replied,  "  I  never 
will  publish  to  the  world  that  I  think  Jesus  Christ 
a  hard  master,  and  religion  an  unsatisfying  portion, 
which  I  should  surely  do  if  I  went  on  the  devil's 
ground  in  quest  of  happiness."  This  argument  was 
short  but  conclusive.  The  lady  determined  not  to 
go. 

The  Congress  of  the  United  States,  soon  after  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  passed  the  following 
resolution : 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  207 


Whereas,  true  religion  and  good  morals  are  the 
only  foundation  of  public  liberty  and  happiness, 

Resolved^  That  it  be,  and  hereby  is,  earnestly 
recommended  to  the  several  States  to  take  the  most 
effectual  measures  for  the  encouragement  thereof, 
and  for  the  suppression  of  theatrical  entertainments, 
horse-racing,  gambling,  and  such  other  diversions  as 
are  productive  of  idleness,  dissipation,  and  a  general 
depravity  of  principles  and  manners. 

During  the  progress  of  the  most  ferocious  revolu- 
tion which  ever  shocked  the  face  of  heaven,  theaters 
in  Paris  alone,  multiplied  from  six  to  twenty-five. 
Now,  one  of  two  conclusions  follows  from  this : 
either  the  spirit  of  the  times  produced  the  institu- 
tions, or  the  institutions  cherished  the  spirit  of  the 
times,  and  this  would  certainly  go  to  prove,  that  they 
are  either  the  parents  of  vice,  or  the  offspring  of  it. 

The  German  women  are  guarded  against  danger, 
and  preserve  their  purity  by  having  no  play-houses 
among  them. — Tacitus. 

In  all  lands  the  profession  of  a  player  is  looked 
upon  by  thinking  men,  as  dishonorable,  and  professed 
players  are  every  where  justly  condemned. 


208  BOOK  OP  THOUGHT. 


THE    SABBATH. 


Remember  the  Sabbath  day  to  keep  it  holy. 

Exod.  20 :  8. 

I  have,  by  long  and  sound  experience,  found  that 
the  due  observance  of  the  Lord's  day  and  its  duties, 
has  been  of  great  advantage  to  me. — Sir  M.  Hale. 

Hail  to  the  Sabbath  day  ! 

The  day  divinely  given. 
When  men  to  God  their  homage  pay,' 

And  earth  draws  nigh  to  heaven. 

Bullfinch. 

Yes  child  of  suffering,  thoa  may'st  well  be  sure, 
He  who  ordained  the  Sabbath  loves  the  poor. 

0.  W.  mimes. 

Hail  hallowed  day,  that  binds  a  yoke  on  vice  *. 
Gives  rest  from  toil,  proclaims  God's  holy  truth, 
Blesses  the  family,  secures  the  state. 
Prospers  communities,  exalteth  nations. 
Pours  light  and  life  on  earth,  and  points  the  way  to 
heaven. —  World's  Laconics. 

SIR    M.    HALES   GOLDEN  MAXIM. 

A  Sabbath  well  spent 

Brings  a  week  of  content. 
And  strength  for  the  toils  of  the  morrow ; 

But  a  Sabbath  profaned, 

Whatsoever  be  gained. 
Is  a  certain  forerunner  of  sorrow. 


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The  Sabbath  was  made  for  man. — 3Iarh  2 :  27. 

This  is  the  day  which  the  Lord  hath  made ;  we 
will  rejoice  and  be  glad  in  it.     Pa.  118-24. 

Mr.  Philip  Henry  used  to  call  the  Lord's  day 
the  queen  of  days — the  pearl  of  the  week — and  ob- 
served it  accordingly. — JRev.  John  Allen. 

0,  what  a  blessing  is  Sunday,  interposed  between 
the  waves  of  worldly  business,  like  the  divine  path 
of  the  Israelites  through  Jordan ! —  Wilberforee. 


TOMB. 

When  I  look  upon  the  tombs  of  the  great,  every 
emotion  of  envy  dies  in  me ;  when  I  read  the  epi- 
taphs of  the  beautiful,  every  inordinate  desire  goes 
out;  when  I  meet  with  the  grief  of  parents  upon  a 
tombstone,  my  heart  melts  with  compassion ;  when  I 
see  the  tombs  of  the  parents  themselves,  I  consider 
the  vanity  of  grieving  for  those  whom  we  must 
quickly  follow;  when  I  see  kings  lying  by  those 
who  deposed  them ;  when  I  consider  rival  wits 
placed  side  by  side ;  or  the  holy  men  who  divided 
the  world  with  their  contests  and  disputes,  I  reflect 
with  sorrow  and  astonishment  on  the  little  competi- 
tions, factions,  and  debates  of  mankind.  When  I 
read  the  several  dates  of  the  tombs,  of  some  that 
died  yesterday,  and  some  six  hundred  years  ago,  I 
consider  that  great  day  when  we  shall  all  of  us  be 
cotemporaries  and  make  our  appearance  together. 

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210  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


THEOLOGY. 


Theology  literally  signifies  a  discourse  concerning 
God.  To  ascertain  the  character  of  God  in  its 
aspect  towards  us ;  to  contemplate  the  display  of 
his  attributes  in  his  works  and  dispensations;  to 
discover  his  designs  towards  man  in  his  orig-inal 
and  present  state;  to  learn  our  duty  to  him,  the 
means  of  enjoying  his  favor,  the  hopes  which  we  are 
authorized  to  entertain,  and  the  wonderful  expedient 
by  which  our  fallen  race  is  restored  to  purity  and 
happiness ;  these  are  the  objects  of  theology,  and 
entitle  it  to  be  pronounced  the  first  of  all  the  sciences 
in  dignity  and  importance.  God  stands  in  the 
closest  relation  to  man  as  his  Maker,  his  Law- 
giver, and  his  Judge.  To  know  this  mighty  Being, 
as  far  as  he  may  be  known,  is  the  noblest  aim  of  the 
human  understanding.  He  who  has  stored  his  mind 
with  every  kind  of  knowledge  except  the  knowledge 
of  God  and  divine  things,  lives  like  a  fool,  and  shall 
die  without  hope. — Prof.  John  Dick. 

Theology  is  distinguished  into  natural  aud  super- 
natural. Natural  theology  is  that  knowledge  of 
God  which  is  plainly  taught  by  the  light  of  nature, 
or  the  contemplation  of  created  things.     As  Milton 

says, 

"  In  contemplation  of  created  things 
By  steps  vie  may  ascend  to  God." 

Supernatural  theology  is  the  system  ©f  the  Christian 
religion  which  is  contained  in  the  Scriptures  of  eter- 
nal truth. 


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Theology  has  a  claim  to  universal  attention ;  ita 
instructions  are  addressed  to  every  son  and  daughter 
of  Adam.  "  It  is  interesting  to  all,  as  furnishing  the 
knowledge  of  God  and  his  son  Christ  Jesus,  which  is 
the  source  of  eternal  life." — Miss  Myrtilla  Morrell. 


THINKERS— THOUGHT. 

Constantly  endeavor  to  think  of  what  is  right,  and 
you  will  be  less  liable  to  think  of  what  is  wrong. 

D.  B.  Adams,  31.  D. 

Thinkers  are  scarce  as  gold ;  but  he  whose  thoughts 
embrace  all  their  subject,  who  pursues  it  uninter- 
uptedly  and  fearless  of  consequences,  is  a  diamond 
of  enormous  magnitude. — Lavater. 

The  happiness  of  our  lives  depends  upon  the 
quality  of  our  thoughts. — Means  and  Ends. 

To  have  thought  too  little,  we  shall  find  in  the 
review  of  life,  among  our  capital  faults. — J.  Foster. 

The  most  sublime  thoughts  are  conceived  by  the 
intellect,  when  it  is  excited  by  pious  emotion. 

Nevins. 

There  are  very  few  original  thinkers,  or  ever  have 
been ;  the  greatest  part  of  those  denominated  phi- 
losophers, have  adopted  the  opinions  of  some  who 
went  before  them,  and  so  having  chosen  their  guides 
they  maintain,  with  zeal,  what  they  have  thus  im- 
bibed.— Encyc.  Brit. 


212  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


The  "World's  thinkers  are  more  beneficial  than  the 
world's  workers ;  for  without  the  thought  and  inven- 
tion of  the  thinkers,  what  would  give  work  to  the 
worker,  and  proper  direction  to  his  labors? 

Thought  engenders  thought.  Place  one  idea  on 
paper,  another  will  be  suggested,  and  still  another, 
and  another,  until  you  have  written  a  page.  It  is 
in  vain  that  you  attempt  to  fathom  your  mind ;  for 
it  is  a  well  of  thought  which  is  bottomless.  The 
more  you  draw  from  it,  the  clearer  and  more  fruitful 
will  it  become.  Should  you  neglect  self-thought, 
and  use  the  thoughts  of  others  only,  you  will  never 
know  what  your  mind  is  capable  of.  At  first  your 
ideas  may  come  forth  in  rather  shapeless  masses; 
but  time  and  due  perseverance  will  arrange  and 
polish  them.  He  who  learns  to  thinh,  learns  to 
write.  The  more  you  think,  and  the  more  methodi- 
cally you  think,  the  better  you  will  express  your 
ideas. — Berkeley. 

A  man  might  frame  and  let  loose  a  star  to  roll  in 
its  orbit,  and  yet  not  have  done  so  memorable  a 
thing  before  God,  as  he  who  lets  go  a  golden-orbed 
thought  to  roll  through  the  generations  of  time. 

H.  Ward  Beecher. 

Mankind  have  a  great  aversion  to  intellectual 
labor  ;  but  even  supposing  knowledge  to  be  easily 
attainable,  more  people  would  be  content  to  be  igno- 
rant, than  would  take  only  a  little  trouble  to  acquire 
it. — Johnson. 


BOOK  OP  THOUGHT.  213 


The  vulgar  herd  of  mankind  look  upon  the  world's 
thinkers  as  a  pack  of  idlers,  and  despise  them  ac- 
cordingly.— 3Irs.  R.  Morrell. 

Those  who  have  finished  by  making  others  think 
with  them,  have  usually  been  those  who  began  by 
daring  to  think  with  themselves. — Colton. 


TIME. 

As  every  thread  of  gold  is  valuable,  so  is  every 
moment  of  time ;  and  as  it  would  be  folly  to  shoe 
horses  with  gold,  as  Nero  did,  so  it  is  to  spend  time 
in  ti'ifles. — Mason. 

Seize  the  God-given  moments  as  they  fly,  and 
stamp  time  with  what  will  meet  the  approbation  of 
your  conscience  and  of  God. 

As  nothing  truly  valuable  can  be  attained  without 
industry,  so  there  can  be  no  persevering  industry 
without  a  deep  sense  of  the  value  of  time. 

Sigourney. 

Spend  your  time  in  nothing  which  you  might  not 
safely  and  properly  be  found  doing,  if  death  should 
surprise  you  in  the  act. — Baxter. 

"Where  is  that  thrift,  that  avarice  of  time, 
(Blest  avarice,)  which  the  thought  of  death  inspires  ? 
Oh  time,  than  gold  more  scarce  ;  more  a  load 
Than  lead  to  fools :  and  fools  reputed  wise." 


214  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Spurn,  with  disdain,  those  foolish  trifles,  and 
frivolous  vanities,  -which  so  frequently  consume  life 
as  the  locusts  did  Egypt;  and  devote  your  time  with 
the  ardor  of  a  passion,  to  the  attainment  of  the  most 
divine  improvements  of  the  human  soul. — J.  Foxier. 

The  lofty  queen  Elizabeth,  of  England,  on  her 
death-bed,  and  just  before  she  expired,  is  said  to 
have  cried  out,  from  the  deep  of  her  heart,  "  millions 
of  money  for  one  inch  of  time  !*'  How  many  such 
inches  had  she  wasted? — Todd. 

Time  is  requiste  to  bring  great  projects  to  maturity. 

Time  is  what  composes  life ;  therefore,  he  who 
squanders  his  time  wastes  his  precious  life. 

Miss  Myrtilla  Morrell. 

"  Oh,"  said  one  as  he  lay  dying,  "  call  back  time; 
if  you  can  call  back  time,  then  there  may  be  hope 
for  me  ;  but  time  is  gone  !" 

Alas,  how  many  squander  and  waste  the  precious 
gift  of  time,  and  then,  when  they  come  to  be  pros- 
trated on  the  bed  of  death,  reproach  themselves  with 
a  keenness  of  rebuke,  which  language  is  too  poor  to 
convey. —  Todd. 

Should  most  persons  sit  down  and  draw  up  a  par- 
ticular account  of  their  time,  what  a  shameful  bill 
would  it  be ! — Sherlock. 

He  who  sets  a  wrong  estimate  on  time,  sets  a 
wrong  estimate  on  all  other  things. — M.  B.  Cutter. 


BOOK  OP  THOUGHT.  215 

Still  on  it  creeps, 
Each  little  moment  at  another's  heels, 
Till  hours,  days,  years,  and  ages  are  made  up 
Of  such  small  parts  as  these,  and  men  look  back, 
Worn  and  bewilder'd,  wond'ring  how  it  is. 
Thou  trav'lest  like  a  ship  in  the  wide  ocean, 
Which  hath  no  bounding  shore  to  mark  its  progress. 

Joanna  Baillie. 


TOBACCO. 

The  relation  of  tobacco  to  the  human  organization 
is  that  of  a  virulent  poison ;  and  its  employment,  in 
any  form,  as  a  luxury,  is  a  violation  of  natural  law ; 
and  a  source  of  debility,  imbecility,  immorality,  im- 
piety, poverty,  misery,  disease,  and  premature  death. 

Dr.  R.  T.  Trail. 

The  use  of  tobacco,  in  any  form,  is  a  habit  utterly 
unclean  and  besotting.  Users  of  the  filthy  weed 
neither  reverence  the  house  of  God,  nor  respect  that 
of  man.  They  pay  small  regard  to  the  requirements 
of  good  breedinsr. — Mrs.  H.  Ann  Jones. 

The  dirty  weed  is  poisonous  and  offensive,  contrary 
to  nature,  and  at  war  with  it. — Dr.  Cox  of  Brooklyn. 

For  a  professed  Christian  to  use  tobacco,  as  a  lux- 
ury, demonstrates  to  the  infidel  that  he  loves,  and 
indulges  in  the  things  of  the  flesh,  if  not  those  of 
the  devil. — Long. 


216  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Tobacco  is  endued  with  energetic  poisonous  pro- 
perties producing  generally  a  universal  tremor,  which 
is  rarely  the  result  of  other  poisons. 

Dr.  Paris  of  London. 

Though  tobacco  possesses  several  manifest  medi- 
cinal powers,  yet  it  is  seldom  administered  by  physi- 
cians. The  grand  objection  to  its  use  as  a  remedial 
agent  is,  that  it  is  apt  to  take  on  the  most  furious, 
deathly,  uncontrolable  action,  making  "  the  remedy 
worse  than  the  disease." 

Tobacco  should  not  be  called  a  remedy ;  for  it 
causes  ten  thousand  cases  of  disease  where  it  cures 
one.  It  is  universally  ranked  among  the  poisons,  and 
with  as  much  reason  as  the  fang  of  the  rattlesnake 
or  the  viper. — Rev.  D.  Baldwin. 

Many  men  who  are  utterly  unable  to  pay  the 
funeral  expenses  of  their  wife  or  child,  spend  twenty 
or  thirty  dollars  a  year  for  the  filthy  weed. 

B.  B.  Adams,  31.  B. 

Thousands  of  comparatively  poor  men,  spend  20 
cents  a  day  for  cigars,  $1S  a  year,  or  more  than 
$2,000  in  thirty  years  ! — Idrs.  H.  Newell  Cutter. 

Many  tobacco  smokers  there  are  who  can  not 
forego  the  pleasures  of  sense  long  enough  to  hear  a 
gospel  sermon ;  and  when  they  do  attend  church,  the 
*'  amen  "  is  the  most  joyful  part  of  the  discourse,  so 
anxious  are  they  to  rush  out  and  consume  the  nox- 
ious weed. — Long. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  217 


The  use  of  Tobacco  is  a  custom  loathsome  to  the 
eye,  offensive  to  the  nose,  hurtful  to  the  brain,  dan- 
gerous to  the  lungs,  and  in  the  black  fumes  thereof, 
nearest  resembling  the  horrible  stygeian  smoke  of 
the  bottomless  pit. — King  Jame%  I. 

Who  can  see  groups  of  boys,  of  six  or  eight  years 
old,  in  our  streets,  smoking  cigars,  without  antici- 
pating such  a  depreciation  of  our  posterity,  in  health 
and  character,  as  can  hardly  be  contemplated,  even 
at  this  distance,  without  pain  and  horror  ? — Dr.  Rush. 

If  the  consumption  of  tobacco  in  the  United  States, 
increases  in  future,  as  it  has  for  the  last  twenty 
years,  may  we  not  reasonably  fear  that  this  nation 
of  active,  enterprising,  efficient  Yankees,  flying  all 
over  the  world,  will  be  actually  smoked  down  into  a 
people  as  phlegmatic  and  stationary  as  the  smoking 
Dutchman  of  Holland. — Rev.  D.  Baldwin,  M.  D. 

Users  of  tobacco  awake  in  the  morning,  restless, 
feverish,  low-spirited,  and  dissatisfied. —  Todd. 

The  probable  cost  of  tobacco  to  the  people  of  the 
United  States  is  not  short  of  $40,000,000  per  an- 
num :  a  sum  sufficient  to  pay  the  tuition  of  every 
boy  and  girl,  white  and  black,  throughout  America. 

Long. 

The  Christian  who  is  in  the  habit  of  using  tobacco 
as  a  luxury,  is  in  danger,  when  in  trouble  of  mind, 
of  trusting  to  it  for  consolation,  as  the  drunkard 

does  to  the  intoxicating  bowl. — Ibid. 

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218  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


Every  man  would  be  a  better  man,  and  every 
Christian  a  better  Christian — to  say  the  least — by 
refraining  from  the  use  of  the  filthy  weed. 

Mrs.  R.  Blorrell. 

If  the  center  of  our  globe  were  literally  a  burning 
hell,  and  its  all-devouring  crater  opened  to  the  sur- 
face of  the  earth,  men  would  continually  rush  into 
it,  even  while  it  vomited  its.  fiercest  flames,  if  the 
power  of  depraved  sensual  appetite  urged  them  on. 

Br.  Alcott. 

The  great-grand-parent  vices  in  the  way  of  the 
world's  reform,  are  alcohol  and  tobacco.  They 
waste  human  energies,  and  destroy  human  talents 
equal  to  war,  famine,  and  pestilence,  which,  in  fact, 
they  engender  and  beget. — B.  T.  Trail,  M.  D. 

The  consumption  of  cigars  alone,  in  the  city  of 
New  York,  in  1851,  was  computed  at  $10,000  a  day; 
while  the  whole  city  paid  but  $8,500  a  day  for  bread; 
this  would  be  $3,650,000  a  year  for  cigars  alone ! 

Rev.  D.  Baldwin. 

The  desire  for  tobacco  is,  in  thousands  of  individ- 
uals, stronger  than  the  desire  for  food !  Yea  the 
desire  for  the  filthy  weed,  in  many  professed  Chris- 
tians, is  stronger  than  their  desire  for  the  robe  of 
Christ's  righteousness  ! — Mrs.  U.  N.  Cutter. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  219 


TONGUE. 

Give  not  thy  tongue  too  great  liberty  lest  it  take 
thee  prisoner. —  Quarles. 

Whoso  keepeth  his  mouth  and  his  tongue,  keepeth 
his  soul  from  troubles. — Solomon. 

What  you  keep  by  you,  you  may  change  and  mend  ; 
But  words  once  spoke,  can  never  be  recalled. 

Roscommon. 

The  tongue  is  a  fire — a  world  of  iniquity ;  it  de- 
fileth  the  whole  body,  and  setteth  on  fire  the  course 
of  nature,  and  is  set  on  fire  of  hell. — James. 

The  tongue  can  no  man  tame ;  it  is  an  unruly 
evil,  full  of  deadly  poison. — Grod. 

A  wound  from  the  tongue  is  worse  than  a  wound 
from  the  sword. — Pythagoras. 

If  any  offend  not  in  word,  the  same  is  a  perfect 
man. — James. 

Tongue,  a  little  horse  that  frequently  runs  away 
"with  women. — Anon. 


TRIAL  — AFFLICTION— SORROW. 

Affliction  is  the  school  of  virtue :  it  corrects  lev- 
ity, and  interrupts  the  confidence  of  sinning. 

Atterhury. 


220  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


We  all  need  affliction  for  the  trial  of  our  virtues. 
How  can  we  exercise  the  shining  grace  of  content- 
ment, if  all  things  succeed  well  with  us;  or  that 
heavenly  grace  of  forgiveness,  if  we  have  no  ene- 
mies?— Mrs.  H.  A.  Jones. 

Affliction  is  the  good  man's  shining  scene ; 
Prosperity  conceals  his  brightest  ray. —  Young. 

In  this  world,  the  fondest  and  the  best. 

Are  the  most  tried,  most  troubled,  and  distressed. 

Orahhe. 
Affliction  is  the  wholesome  soil  of  virtue ; 
Where  patience,  honor,  sweet  humanity, 
Calm  fortitude,  take  root,  and  strongly  flourish. 

Mallett. 
It  is  difficult  to  conceive  of  any  thing  more  beau- 
tiful than  the  reply  given  by  a  humble  one  under 
affliction,  on  being  asked  how  he  bore  it  so  patiently. 
"It  lightens  the  stroke,"  said  he,  "to  draw  near  to 
Him  who  handles  the  rod." 

It  is  not  right  that  we  should  remain  without  pain 
or  grief,  under  trial  of  afflictions  that  befall  us,  like 
anaels,  who  are  above  the  sentiments  of  our  nature. 
Neither  is  it  right  that  we  should  indulge  grief  with- 
out consolation,  like  heathens  who  have  no  senti- 
ments of  grace.  But  we  ought  both  to  mourn  and 
be  comforted  like  Christians.  The  consolations  of 
grace  should  rise  superior  to  the  feelings  of  nature, 
so  that  grace  may  not  only  dwell  in,  but  be  victo- 
rious over  us. — Pascal. 


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When  we  are  pierced  by  afflictions,  the  way  is  not 
to  go  to  God  and  say,  "  take  away  this  thorn."  God 
says,  "  No.  I  put  it  there  to  bleed  you  where  you 
are  plethoric."  Suffering  well  borne,  is  better  than 
suflfering  removed. — H.  Ward  Beecher. 

Afflictions  are  the  same  to  the  soul  as  the  plow  to 
the  fallow-ground,  the  pruning-knive  to  the  vine,  and 
the  furnace  to  the  gold. 

Sorrow  is  God's  school.  Even  his  own  beloved, 
eternal  Son,  was  not  perfect  without  it.  "Though 
a  Son,  yet  learned  he  obedience  by  the  things  that 
he  suffered." 

The  path  of  sorrow,  and  that  path  alone, 
Leads  to  the  land  where  sorrow  is  unknown. 
No  traveler  ever  reached  that  blest  abode. 
Who  found  not  thorns  and  briers  in  his  road. 

Cowper. 

Many  of  our  brightest  virtues  are  fitly  compared 
to  stars — there  must  be  the  darkness  of  night  or 
they  can  not  shine.  Without  sorrow,  suffering,  or 
affliction,  there  could  be  no  fortitude,  no  patience, 
no  compassion,  no  sympathy. 

Miss  Myrtilla  3IorrelL 

Sorrow  is  a  kind  of  rust  of  the  soul,  the  putrefac- 
tion of  a  stagnant  life ;  and  is  remedied  by  exercise 
and  motion. — Johnson. 

If  there  is  an  evil  in  this  world,  it  is  surely  sor- 
row and  heaviness  of  heart. — Mrs.  E.  Adams. 


222  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


When  Anaxagoras  was  told  of  the  death  of  his 
son,  he  only  said,  "  I  knew  my  son  was  mortal." 
So  we,  in  all  casualties  of  life,  should  say,  I  knew 
my  riches  were  uncertain,  that  my  friend  was  but  a 
man.  Such  considerations  would  soon  pacify  us, 
because  all  our  troubles  proceed  from  their  being 
unexpected. — Plutarch. 

Now,  no  chastening  for  the  present  seemeth  to  be 
joyous  but  grievous;  nevertheless,  afterward,  it 
yieldeth  the  peaceable  fruits  of  righteousness  unto 
them  that  are  exercised  thereby. — Crod. 

If  the  ambitious  ore  dreads  the  furnace,  the 
forge,  the  rasp,  and  the  file,  it  should  never  desire 
to  be  made  a  sword.  Man  is  the  iron  and  God  is 
the  smith,  and  we  are  always  either  in  the  forge  or 
on  the  anvil.     God  is  shaping  us  for  higher  things. 

a.  Ward  Beecher. 

Although  affliction  cometh  not  forth  of  the  dust, 
neither  doth  trouble  spring  out  of  the  ground ;  yet 
man  is  born  nnto  trouble  as  the  sparks  fly  upward. 

Crod. 

Our  real  blessings  often  appear  in  the  shape  of 
pains,  losses,  and  disappointments. — Addison. 

In  this  world,  full  often,  our  joys  are  only  the 
tender  shadows  which  our  sorrows  cast. 

S.  Ward  Beecher. 

Whom  the  Lord  loveth  he  chasteneth,  and  scourg- 
eth  every  son  whom  he  receiveth. — God. 


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Human  hearts  draw  nearer  together  under  severe 
affliction,  than  they  ever  do  in  the  greatest  joy. 

Mrs.  F.  Pitts. 

Many  of  our  troubles  are  God  dragging  us,  and 
they  would  end  if  we  would  stand  upon  our  feet,  and 
go  whither  he  would  have  us. — H.  Ward  Beecher. 


TRUTH— VERACITY. 

Truth  is  the  bond  of  union,  and  the  eternal  basis 
of  human  happiness.  Without  the  virtue  of  truth, 
there  is  no  reliance  upon  human  language,  no  confi- 
dence in  friendship,  and  no  security  in  promises  or 
oaths. — Old  Writer. 

Never  consent  to  preserve  your  reputation  at  the 
expense  of  truth. — Mrs.  F.  Pitts. 

Never,  in  the  slightest  thing,  depart  from  the 
strictest  truth  and  uprightness,  in  action  as  well  as 
word. — Mrs.  R.  31orreU. 

All  extremes  are  error.  The  reverse  of  error  is 
not  truth,  but  error  still.  Truth  lies  between  two 
extremes. — Cecil.  '' 

There  is  no  virtue  which  derives  not  its  original 
from  truth ;  as,  on  the  contrary,  there  is  no  vice 
which  has  not  its  beginning  in  a  lie.  Truth  is  the 
foundation  of  all  knowledge  and  the  cement  of  all 
societies. — Casauhon. 


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Truth  is  confirmed  by  investigation  and  delay; 
falsehood  avails  itself  of  haste  and  uncertainty. 

Tacittis. 

The  child-like  virtues  of  veracity  and  plain  hon- 
esty, are  the  foundation  of  all  that  is  sublime  in 
character. — Mrs.  Elizabeth  Adams. 

The  temple  of  truth,  like  the  indestructible  pillar 
of  Smeaton,  is  founded  on  a  rock ;  it  triumphs  over 
the  tempest,  and  enlightens  those  very  billows  that 
impetuously  rush  on  to  overwhelm  it. — Lacon. 

ADVANTAGE  OF  CONSTANT  ADHERENCE  TO  TRUTH. 

Petrarch,  a  celebrated  Italian  poet,  who  flourished 
some  five  centuries  ago,  recommended  himself  to  the 
confidence  of  Cardinal  Collound,  in  whose  family  he 
resided,  by  his  candor  and  strict  adherence  to  truth. 
A  violent  quarrel  occurred  in  the  house  of  the  noble- 
man, which  was  carried  so  far,  that  recourse  was 
had  to  arms.  The  cardinal  wished  to  know  the  facts 
in  the  case ;  and,  that  he  might  be  able  to  decide 
with  strict  justice,  he  assembled  all  his  people,  and 
obliged  them  to  bind  themselves  by  a  most  solemn 
oath,  on  ^he  Gospels,  to  declare  the  whole  truth. 
Every  one  without  exception,  submitted  to  this  deter- 
mination ;  even  the  Bishop  of  Luna,  brother  to  the 
Cardinal,  was  not  excused.  Petrarch,  in  his  turn, 
presenting  himself  to  take  the  oath,  the  Cardinal 
closed  the  book,  saying,  "  as  to  you^  Petrach,  your 
word  is  sufficient.'^ 


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Truth  never  suffers  from  friction  with  error.  In- 
deed error  is  the  best  polish  for  truth. 

Truth  can  hardly  be  expected  to  adapt  herself  to 
the  crooked  policy,  and  wily  sinuosities  of  wordly 
affairs ;  for  truth,  like  light,  travels  only  in  straight 
lines. — Lacon. 

Certainly  it  is  heaven  upon  earth  to  have  a  man's 
mind  move  in  Charity,  rest  in  Providence,  and  turn 
upon  the  poles  of  truth. — Bacon. 

I  have  seldom  known  any  one  who  deserted  truth 
in  trifles,  that  could  be  trusted  in  matters  of  import- 
ance.— Paley. 

Accustom  your  children  to  a  strict  regard  for 
truth,  even  in  the  most  minute  particulars.  Suffer 
no  deviations,  for  you  do  not  know  where  they  will 
end. — Johnson. 


USURER. 

Go  not  to  a  covetous  old  man  with  any  request 
too  soon  in  the  morning,  before  he  hath  taken  in 
that  day's  prey:  for  his  covetousness  is  up  before 
him,  and  he  before  thee,  and  he  is  in  ill  humor;  but 
stay  till  the  afternoon,  till  he  be  satiated  upon  some 
borrower. — Fuller. 


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VANITY. 

Every  man  has  just  as  much  vanity  as  he  wants 
understanding. — Pope. 

Ladies  of  fashion  starve  their  happiness  to  feed 
their  vanity,  and  their  love  to  feed  their  pride. 

Colton. 

An  egotist  will  always  speak  of  himself,  either  in 
praise  or  in  censure :  but  a  modest  man  ever  shuns 
making  himself  the  subject  of  his  conversation. 

La  Bruyere. 

Pride  and  vanity  are  forever  spoken  of  side  by 
side :  and  many  suppose  that  they  are  merely  diflFer- 
ent  shades  of  the  same  feeling.  Yet  so  far  are  they 
from  being  akin,  they  can  hardly  find  room  in  the 
same  breast.  A  proud  man  will  not  stoop  to  be 
vain ;  a  vain  man  is  so  busy  in  bowing  and  wriggling 
to  catch  fair  words  from  others,  that  he  can  never 
lift  up  his  head  into  pride. — Anon. 


VIRTUE  — VICE. 

Virtue,  like  fire,  turns  all  things  into  itself:  our 
actions  and  our  friendships  are  tinctured  with  it, 
and  whatsoever  it  touches  becomes  amiable. 

Seneca. 

Virtue  and  genuine  graces,  in  themselves, 
Speak  what  no  words  can  utter. — iShakk-peare. 


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Virtue  is  the  middle  between  two  vices,  and  is 
removed  from  either  extreme.  Thus  geneiosity  is 
the  middle  virtue  between,  the  two  extremes  of 
which  are  avarice  and  prodigality. — Soraee. 

When  was  public  virtue  to  be  found 
Where  private  was  not? — Cowper. 

To  the  wicked  the  virtue  of  others  is  ever  formid- 
able,— they  dread  that  which  lowers  them  by  com- 
parison, and  hate  the  excellence  to  which  they  can 
not  aspire. — Sallust. 

Beauty  and  wit  will  die,  learning  will  vanish  away, 
and  the  many  arts  of  life  be  very  soon  forgotten, 
but  virtue  will  remain  forever. 

Virtue,  not  rolling  suns,  the  mind  matures; 

That  life  is  long  which  answers  life's  great  end. 

Tovng. 
The  means  immutable  of  happiness. 
Or  in  the  vale  of  life,  or  on  the  throne, 
Is  virtue. — Murphy. 

Vice  is  a  monster  of  so  frightful  mien. 
As  to  be  hated  needs  but  to  be  seen ; 
Yet  seen  too  oft,  familiar  with  her  face, 
We  first  endure,  then  pity,  then  embrace. 

Pope. 

Virtue  is  the  foundation  of  honor  and  esteem,  and 
the  source  of  all  beauty,  order,  and  happiness  in 
natm*e. — Scotfs  Lessons. 


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Those  rise  with  difficulty,  whose  virtues  or  talents 
are  encumbered  or  depressed  by  poverty. — Juvenal. 

In  the  deepest  distress,  virtue  is  more  illustrious 
than  vice  in  its  highest  prosperity. — Observation. 

When  a  man  has  such  an  exalted  soul,  that  he 
can  look  upon  life  and  death,  riches  and  poverty, 
with  indifference,  and  closely  adheres  to  honesty,  in 
whatever  shape  she  presents  herself;  then  it  is  that 
virtue  appears  with  such  a  brightness,  that  all  the 
world  must  admire  her  beauties. — Cicero. 

Virtue  confers  value  on  all  the  endowments  and 
qualities  of  man. 

One  virtuous  disposition  of  soul  is  infinitely  pre- 
ferable to  the  greatest  natural  accomplishments  and 
abilities,  and  of  greater  value  than  all  worldly 
treasures. — Scott's  Lessons. 

It  is  with  certain  good  qualities  as  with  the 
senses ;  those  who  are  entirely  deprived  of  them  can 
neither  appreciate  nor  comprehend  them. 

Rochefoiicald. 

He  that  has  energy  enough  in  his  constitution  to 
root  out  a  vice,  should  go  a  little  further,  and  plant 
in  a  virtue  in  its  place ;  otherwise  he  will  have  his 
labor  to  renew.  A  strong  soil  that  has  produced 
weeds,  may  be  made  to  produce  wheat,  with  far  less 
difficulty  than  it  would  cost  to  make  it  produce 
nothing. — Colton. 


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Vice  can  not  fix,  and  virtue  can  not  change. 
The  once  fallen  woman  must  forever  fall; 
For  vice  must  have  variety,  while  virtue 
Stands  like  the  sun,  and  all  that  rolls  around 
Drinks  life,  and  light,  and  glory  from  her  aspect. 

Byron. 

One  reason  why  virtue  is  so  little  practiced,  is  its 
being  so  ill  understood. — GreviUe. 

I  held  it  ever, 
Virtue  and  knowledge  were  endowments  greater 
Than  nobleness  and  riches ;  careless  heirs 
May  the  two  latter  darken  and  expend ; 
But  immortality  attends  the  former, 
Making  a  man  a  God. — Shakspeare. 


WAR. 

I  prefer  the  most  unjust  peace  to  the  justest  war. 
The  horrors  of  war  are  numerous,  and  so  afflicting, 
that  peace  should  at  all  times  be  purchased  at  any 
price  short  of  national  honor. — Seneca. 

Of  all  the  evils  to  public  liberty,  war  is  perhaps 
the  most  to  be  dreaded,  because  it  comprises  and 
develops  the  genius  of  every  other. — Madison. 

What  custom  of  the  most  barbarous  nations  is 
more  repugnant  to  the  feelings  of  piety,  humanity, 
and  justice,  than  that  of  deciding  controversies  by  the 
edge  of  the  sword,  by  powder  and  ball,  or  the  point 


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of  the  bayonet?  What  other  savage  custom  has 
occasioned  half  the  desolation  and  misery  to  the 
human  race  ?  And  what  but  the  grossest  infatua- 
tion could  render  such  a  custom  popular  among  ra- 
tional beings  ? — Friends'  Tract  Committee  of  Rich- 
mond, Ind. 

The  -whole  amount  of  property  in  the  United 
States  is  probably  far  less  than  what  has  been  ex- 
pended and  destroyed,  within  two  centuries  by  wars 
in  Christendom  ! — Ihid. 

War  suspends  the  rules  of  moral  obligation,  and 
what  is  long  suspended  is  in  danger  of  being  totally 
abrogated.  Civil  wars  strike  deepest  of  all  into  the 
manners  of  the  people.  They  vitiate  their  politics ; 
they  corrupt  their  morals;  they  pervert  even  the 
natural  taste  and  relish  of  equity  and  justice.  By 
teaching  us  to  consider  our  fellow  creatures  in  an 
hostile  light,  the  whole  body  of  our  nation  becomes 
gradually  less  dear  to  us.  The  very  names  of  afiec- 
tion  and  kindred,  which  were  the  bond  of  charity 
whilst  we  agreed,  become  new  incentives  to  hatred 
and  rage,  when  the  communion  of  our  country  is 
dissolved. — Burhe. 


WISDOM. 

Wisdom,  as  it  refers  to  action,  lies  in  the  proposal 
of  a  right  end,  and  the  employment  of  the  best 
means  to  attain  that  end. — Lacon. 


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What  is  it  to  be  wise  ? 
'Tis  biat  to  know  how  little  can  be  known, 
To  see  all  other's  faults,  and  feel  our  own. — Pope. 

We  should  learn  the  wisdom  of  age,  long  e'er  we 
become  depressed  with  its  infirmities. — F.  M.  Pitts. 

"  If  thou  wishest  to  be  wise. 
Keep  these  words  before  thine  eyes ; 
What  thou  speakest,  and  how,  beware. 
Of  whom,  to  whom,  when,  and  where." 

Knowledge  and  Wisdom,  far  from  being  one. 
Have  oftimes  no  connection.     Knowledge  dwells 
In  heads  replete  with  thoughts  of  other  men  ; 
Wisdom  in  minds  attentive  to  their  own. 

World's  Laconics. 

No  man  is  the  wiser  for  his  learning :  it  may  ad- 
minister matter  to  work  in,  or  objects  to  work  upon ; 
but  wit  and  wisdom  are  born  with  a  man. — Selden. 

We  ought  not  to  judge  of  men's  merits  by  their 
qualifications,  but  by  the  use  they  make  of  them. 

Charron. 

Wisdom  prepares  for  the  worst ;  but  folly  leaves 
the  worst  for  the  day  when  it  comes. — Cecil. 

What  we  call  wisdom  is  the  result,  not  the  residi- 
um,  of  all  the  wisdom  of  past  ages. 

S.  Ward  Beecher. 

Man's  chief  wisdom  consists  in  knowing  his  follies 
and  faults,  that  he  may  correct  them. —  W.  T.  Jones. 


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The  strongest  symptom  of  wisdom  in  man,  is  his 
being  sensible  of  his  own  follies. — From  the  French. 

The  wisest  man  is  generally  he  who  thinks  himself 
the  least  so. — Boileau. 

It  is  generally  seen,  that  the  wiser  men  are  about 
the  things  of  this  world,  the  less  wise  they  are  about 
the  things  of  the  next. —  Cribson. 


WOMAN— MOTHERS. 

The  influence  of  woman  on  the  moral  sentiments 
of  society,  is  intimately  connected  with  its  best 
interests. 

The  future  destiny  of  the  child  is,  in  a  great 
measure,  the  work  of  the  mother. 

The  mother  is  the  first  divinity  at  whose  knee  the 
budding  spirit  of  the  child  worships. — Page. 

The  moral  basis  of  man's  character  is  fixed  by 
the  mother  at  home,  by  an  unobtrusive  and  unseen 
process. — Means  and  Ends. 

It  is  the  mother's  arduous  but  glorious  task  to 
train  the  little  boy  to  that  love  of  justice,  that  strict 
regard  for  truth  and  generous  sympathy,  which  fits 
him  for  all  his  social,  political,  and  moral  duties. 

The  lessons  that  are  gathered  at   the  mother's 


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knee,  are  likely  to  exert  a  controlling  influence  upon 
the  child's  after  destiny. — Napoleon. 

On  the  wisdom  of  mothers  depends  the  wisdom  of 
their  sons.  Then  what  if  women  are  excluded  from 
the  ballot-box,  from  legislative  assemblies,  and  from 
political  tumults ;  while  the  wisdom  and  virtue  man- 
ifested there  by  men,  is  the  result  of  the  mother's 
train  in  or. — 31eans  and  Ends. 

"  The  mother  in  her  office,  holds  the  key 

Of  the  soul,  and  she  it  is  who  stamps  the  coin 

Of  character,  and  marks  the  being  who  would  be  a 

savage 
But  for  her  gentle  care,  a  Christian  man! 
Then  crown  her  queen  of  the  world." 

We  never  fully  comprehend  the  sacred  meaning 
of  the  word  mother,  until  we  have  lost  her  by  death. 
Never  until  my  voice  is  lost  in  death,  and  the  grave 
shall  have  closed  over  my  humble  form,  shall  I  for- 
get that  dear  word,  Mother. — JEUioit. 

The  mightiest  of  a  nation's  great,  are  not  worthy 
as  much  honor  as  that  noble  mother  who  fits  her 
sons  and  daughters  to  act  nobly  life's  great  drama 
upon  the  stage  of  time. — Home  Memories. 

No  mother  should  ever  forget  the  momentous 
truth,  that  she  must  mould  her  offspring — so  to 
speak — to  a  very  great  extent,  physically,  intellec- 
tually, morally,  and  religiously — 31rs.  If.  A.  Jones. 

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234  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


During  the  susceptibility  of  childhood  and  early 
youth,  mothers  should  bring  to  bear  those  influences 
•which  will  fit  their  dear  oSspring  for  true  manhood 
or  womanhood. 

"  Little  feet  will  go  astray, 
Guide  them  mothers,  while  you  may." 

Mr8.  E.  N.  Cutter. 

On  mothers  devolves  the  mighty  God-like  work  to 
moralize  the  world. — Mrs.  Fredonia  Pitts. 

Woman  !     "With  that  word 
Life's  dearest  hopes  and  memories  come. 

ffallecJc. 

Man  is  the  image  and  glory  of  God,  but  woman  is 
the  glory  of  man. — Paul. 

In  the  heart  of  woman  should  dwell  virtue,  mod- 
esty play  on  her  brow,  sweetness  flow  from  her  lips, 
and  provident  industry  occupy  her  hands. 

Miss  A.  a.  N.  Morrdl. 

Discretion  and  good  nature  have  always  been 
looked  upon  as  the  distinguishing  ornaments  of 
female  conversation. — Freeholder. 

Kindness  in  women,  not  their  beauteous  looks,  shall 
win  my  love. — Shakspeare. 

No  woman  can  be  a  lady  who  would  wound  or 
mortify  the  feelings  of  another  person.  She,  in  so 
doing,  does  violence  to  the  nature  of  the  gentler  sex. 
No  matter  how  beautiful,  how  refined  in  some  re- 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  235 


spects,  she  may  be,  she  is  really  coarse  and  vulgar. 

Mrs.  F.  Pitts. 

"Woman  should  be  characterized  by  personal  clean- 
liness, neatness  of  apparel,  and  personal  reserve. 

Miss  Myriilla  Morrell. 

'Tis  beauty,  that  doth  make  women  proud ; 
'Tis  virtue,  that  doth  make  them  most  admired ; 
'Tis  modesty,  that  makes  them  divine. 

ShaTcspeare. 

He  that  contemns  a  shrew  to  the  degree  of  not 
descending  to  word  it  with  her,  does  worse  than  beat 
her. — Sir  Roger  L'  Estrange. 

The  modest  virgin,  the  prudent  wife,  or  the  care- 
ful matron,  are  much  more  serviceable  in  life,  than 
petticoated  philosophers,  blustering  heroines,  or  vira- 
go queens.  She  who  makes  her  husband  and  her 
children  happy,  who  reclaims  the  one  from  vice,  and 
trains  up  the  other  to  virtue,  is  a  much  greater  cha- 
racter than  ladies  described  in  romance,  whose  whole 
occupation  is  to  murder  mankind  with  shafts  from 
their  quivier  or  their  eyes. — Goldsmith. 

There  is  nothing  by  which  I  have  more  profited 
through  life,  than  by  the  just  observations,  the  good 
opinions,  and  sincere  and  gentle  encouragement  of 
amiable  and  sensible  women. — Sir.  S.  Homily. 

Women  have  more  strength  in  their  looks,  than 
we  have  in  our  laws,  and  more  power  by  their  tears 
than  men  have  by  their  arguments. — Saville. 


236  BOOK   OF  THOUGHT. 


As  a  jewel  in  a  swine's  snout,  so  is  a  fair  "womJEn 
without  discretion. — Solomon. 

Woman,  with  weaker  passions  than  man,  is  supe- 
rior to  him  by  the  soul.  Nature  has  endowed  her 
with  two  painful  but  heavenly  gifts  which  raise  l)cr 
above  human  nature ;  enthmiasm  and  compassion. 
By  enthusiasm  she  exalts  herself,  by  compassion 
she  devotes  herself.  She  has  more  imagination  than 
man.  Enthusiasm  springs  from  imagination,  and 
self-sacrifice  from  the  heart.  Women  are,  therefore, 
more  naturally  heroic  than  men.  When  all  is  des- 
perate in  a  national  cause,  we  need  not  yet  despair 
while  there  remains  a  spark  of  resistance  in  a  wo- 
man's heart. — Lamartine. 

"  Woman,  the  brighter  and  the  better  half  of  hu- 
manity, far  excels  man  in  the  affections  and  the 
moral  sentiments."  Where  shall  we  look  for  those 
examples  of  friendship,  and  love,  and  truth,  that 
most  adorn  human  nature  ? — those  abiding  attach- 
ments which  trust  even  when  betrayed,  and  survive 
all  changes  of  time  and  fortune  ?  To  woman.  Who 
waits  at  the  couch  of  the  sick  with  untiring  vigi- 
lance, to  administer  tender  charities,  while  life  lin- 
gers, and  to  perform  the  last  sad  acts  of  kindness 
when  death  comes?     Woman. 

"When  by  pain  and  sickness  wasted, 
Woman  lingers  near  to  our  bed ; 
Feeds,  nurses  us  as  an  angel. 

Washes  our  feet,  cools  our  hot  head." 


BOOK  OF  THOUGffr.  237 


Man  is  but  a  rough  pebble,  without  the  attrition 
received  from  contact  with  the  gentler  sex. 

Marryatt. 

All  the  work  of  philanthrophy  and  benevolence  is 
imperfect,  unless  women  cooperate  with  men. 

When  a  maiden  is  too  forward,  her  admirer  deems 
it  time  to  draw  back. — Anon. 

A  beautiful  woman  if  poor,  should  use  double  cir- 
cumspection ;  for  her  beanty  will  tempt  others,  and 
her  poverty  herself. — Colton. 

The  Christian  religion  alone  contemplates  the  con- 
jugal union  in  the  order  of  nature;  it  is  the  only 
religion  which  presents  woman  to  man  as  a  com- 
panion ;  every  other  religion  abandons  her  to  him  as 
a  slave.  To  religion  alone  do  European  women  owe 
the  liberty  they  enjoy  :  and  from  the  liberty  of 
women  that  of  nations  has  flowed,  accompanied  by 
the  proscription  of  many  inhuman  usages  diffused 
all  over  other  parts  of  the  world. — St.  Pierre. 

Whatever  may  be  the  customs  and  laws  of  a 
countrv,  the  women  of  it  decide  the  morals. 

L.  Annie  3IarUn. 

Woman  was  not  taken  out  of  Adam's  head,  to 
show  that  she  was  to  overtop  him ;  nor  from  his  feet, 
to  be  trampled  upon ;  but  from  his  side,  to  show  that 
she  was  to  be  equal  with  him  ;  from  under  his  arm 
to  be  protected  by  him ;  and  from  near  his  heart,  to 
be  loved  by  him. — Matthew  Henry. 


238  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Nothing  makes  a  woman  more  esteemed  by  the 
other  sex  than  chastity  ;  whether  it  be  that  we  always 
prize  those  most  who  are  hardest  to  come  at,  or,  that 
nothing  besides  chastity,  with  its  colatteral  attend- 
ants, truth,  fidelity,  and  constancy,  gives  the  man  a 
property  in  the  person  he  loves,  and  consequently 
endears  her  to  him  above  all  things. — Addison. 

The  world  was  sad  ! — the  garden  was  a  wild ! 
The  man,  the  hermit,  sigh'd — till  woman  smiled. 

Camplell. 

The  influence  of  woman,  in  giving  purity  to  the 
character  of  the  other  sex,  is  acknowledged  by  the 
most  candid  infidel  writers,  as  well  as  by  all  Chris- 
tians. Lord  Byron,  whose  principles  and  habits 
were  far  below  the  proper  standard,  once  remarked, 
that  when  in  the  society  of  a  virtuous  and  intelligent 
female,  he  invaribly  felt  a  desire  to  be  a  better  man. 
If  such  is  the  power  of  woman,  it  becomes  her  well 
to  reflect  on  her  responsible  station,  and  to  aim  most 
sacredly  at  the  preservation  of  her  own  uprightness 
and  dignity. — T.  Harrison. 


YOUTH. 

Youth  is  the  pleasant  spring  time  of  human  life, 
the  season  of  hope,  enterprise  and  energy ;  to  a  na- 
tion as  well  as  an  individual. —  Williams. 

Youthful  rashness  skips  like  a  hare  over  the 
meshes  of  good  counsel. — Shakspeare. 


BOOK  OP  THOUGHT.  239 


The  strength  and  safety  of  a  community,  consists 
in  the  virtue  and  intelligence  of  its  youth. 

J.  Hawea. 
Employ  your  youth  as  the  spring  time,  which 
soon  departs,  and  wherein  you  ought  to  plant  and 
sow  all  provisions  for  a  long  and  happy  life. 

Sir  W.  Raleigh  to  his  son. 

The  greatest  part  of  mankind  employ  their  youth 
to  make  their  old  age  miserable.  Sad  is  the  specta- 
cle of  the  youth  idling  away  the  spring  season  of  his 
existence  ;  and  not  only  losing  the  sweet  benefit  of 
time,  but  wasting  in  the  formation  of  evil  habits, 
those  God-given  hours,  in  which  he  might  clothe 
himself  with  angel-like  perfection. — Anonymous. 

How  many  imaginary  joys,  how  many  airy  castles 
pass  through  the  mind  of  youth,  which  a  single  jostle 
of  this  rough  world  at  once  destroys. — Todd. 

Youth  are  apt  to  think  themselves  wise  enough, 
as  drunken  men  are  to  think  themselves  sober  enough. 

Chesterfield. 

Youth  is  the  gay  and  pleasant  spring  of  life, 
When  joy  is  stirring  in  the  dancing  blood, 
And  nature  calls  as  with  a  thousand  songs 
To  share  her  general  feast. — Ridgway. 

To  early  manhood  we  look  for  the  chief  prop  and 
support,  the  great  reliance  and  hope,  in  the  perpetu- 
ation of  public  liberty,  and  our  American  institutions. 

Dan.  Webster. 


240  BOOK  OF  THOUaHT. 


Blest  hour  of  childhood  !  then,  and  then  alone, 
Dance  we  the  revels  close  round  pleasure's  throne, 
Quaff  the  bright  nectar  from  her  fountain  springs, 
And  laugh  beneath  the  rainbow  of  her  wings. 

Anon. 

The  greatest  glory  of  a  free-born  people  is,  to 
transmit  that  freedom  to  their  youth. — Harvard. 

If  a  young  man  is  loose  in  his  principles  and 
habits;  if  he  lives  without  plan  and  object,  spending 
his  time  in  idleness  and  pleasure,  there  is  more  hope 
of  a  fool  than  of  him. — J.  Hawes. 

Tell  me  what  are  the  prevailing  sentiments  which 
occupy  the  minds  of  your  youth,  and  I  will  tell  you 
what  is  to  be  the  character  of  the  next  generation. 

Burke. 

Early  manhood  should  be  ingenuous,  generous, 
just ;  looking  forward  to  a  long  life  of  usefulness 
and  honor. — Dan.  Webster. 

He  who  cares  only  for  himself  in  youth,  will  be  a 
very  niggard  in  manhood,  and  a  wretched  miser  in 
old  age. — J.  Hawes. 

If  you  take  care  of  the  first  twenty-one  years  of 
your  life,  the  succeeding  years,  let  them  be  many  or 
few,  will  take  care  of  you. 

Live  as  long  as  a  man  may,  the  first  twenty  years  of 
his  life  constitute  the  most  considerable  part.  They 
appear  so  when  passing  by ;  they  seem  to  have  been 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  241 


SO  when  looking  back  to  them  ;  and  they  occupy 
more  room  in  the  memory  than  all  the  succeeding 
years.  This  being  the  case,  how  important  that  they 
should  be  spent  in  planting  good  principles,  and  cul- 
tivating and  strengthning  good  tastes  and  habits ; 
fleeing  all  those  pleasures  of  sense  which  treasure  up 
bitterness  and  sorrow  for  the  time  to  come. 

The  charms  of  youth  at  once  are  seen  and  past ; 
And  nature  says,  "they  are  too  sweet  to  last." 
So  blooms  the  rose:  and  so  the  blushing  maid. 
Be  gay ;  too  soon  the  flowers  of  youth  will  fade. 

Sir  W.  Jones. 

A  lovely  being,  scarcely  form'd  or  moulded, 
A  rose  with  all  its  sweetest  leaves  yet  folded. 

Bt/ron. 

Youth  with  swift  feet,  walks  onward  in  the  way, 
The  land  of  joy  lies  all  before  his  eyes. — Butler. 

The  retrospect  of  youth  is,  alas !  too  often  like 
visiting  the  grave  of  a  friend  whom  we  have  injured, 
and  are  precluded  by  his  death  from  the  possibility 
ofmaking  reparation. — Landon. 

In  earlier  days,  and  calmer  hours, 

When  heart  Avith  heart  delights  to  blend, 

Where  bloom  my  native  valley's  bowers, 
I  had — ah  !  have  I  now  ? — a  friend ! 

Byron. 

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242  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


ZEAL. 

Zeal  and  duty  are  not  slow ; 
But  on  occasions  firelock  watchful  wait. — Milton. 

Zeal  is  the  fire  of  love, 
Active  for  duty — ^burning  as  it  flies. —  Williams. 


PROMISCUOUS    SUBJECTS. 


A  king's  sleep  is  no  sounder,  nor  his  appetite  bet- 
ter than  those  of  his  humblest  subject.  Thus  it  is 
seen  that  the  true  enjoyments  of  life  are  common  to 
both. 

We  esteem  most  things  according  to  their  intrinsic 
merit ;  why  should  men  be  an  exception  ?  We  prize 
a  horse  for  his  strength,  fleetness,  and  endurance, 
not  for  his  harness.  We  prize  a  man  more  for  his 
fine  house,  his  tracts  of  land,  and  bags  of  dimes, 
yet  these  are  his  furniture,  not  his  mind. 

Secrecy  and  dispatch  are  frequently  the  soul  of 
success  in  an  enterprise. —  Washington. 

Never  abuse  one  who  was  once  your  bosom  friend, 
however  great  an  enemy  now. — 31{s8  31.  Morrell. 

It  is  very  diflficult  to  be  rich  without  corroding 
care,  and  very  easy  to  be  happy  without  wealth. 

D.  B.  Adams. 

It  requires  some  talent  and  some  generosity  to  find 

out  talent  and  generosity  in  others,  though  nothing 

but  self-conceit  and  malice  are  needed  to  discover  or 

to  imagine  faults. — Sharpe. 
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244  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Never  sacrifice  a  principle  for  your  own  personal 
advantage. — JD.  B.  Adams. 

An  undesired  introduction  is  evidently  an  imper- 
tinence, and  may  be  a  downright  insult. 

Miss  31.  Morrell. 

Among  the  masses — especially  among  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  country — the  reputation  of  reading, 
thinking,  and  writing,  is  prejudicial  to  character. 

Sidney  Smith. 

It  is  not  in  the  power 
Of  painting  or  sculpture  to  express 
Aught  so  divine  as  the  fair  form  of  Truth  ! 
The  creatures  of  their  art  may  catch  the  eye, 
But  her  sweet  nature  captivates  the  soul. 

Cumberland. 

Oh!  how  many  thousands  who  think  themseU'^es 
wise,  purchase  a  momentary  enjoyment  at  the  ex- 
pense of  an  age  of  suffering. — Mrs.  H.  N.  Cutler. 

They  are  of  low  birth  indeed,  who  are  not  born 
from  above. 

The  devil  knows  that  if  there  be  any  good  treasure 
it  is  in  our  hearts,  and  he  would  gladly  have  the  key 
of  these  cabinets  that  he  might  rob  us  of  our  jewels. 

Seeker. 

It  is  strange  that  the  generality  of  people  will 
rather  walk  in  the  way  that  most  people  walk,  than 
in  the  way  the  best  go. — Mrs.  E.  Adami. 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  245 


The  way  a  sensible  man  keeps  his  friends  is,  by 
seldom  using  them. — F.  M.  Pitts. 

The  weakest  reasons  appear  strong  when  they 
favor  our  self-love,  and  the  strongest  reasons  appear 
weak  when  opposed  to  this  passion.  Hence,  when 
reason  goes  against  our  desires,  we  go  against  reason. 

Smcad. 

"When  laws,  customs,  or  institutions  cease  to  be 
beneficial  to  man,  they  cease  to  be  obligatory. 

H.  Ward  BeecJier. 

Perhaps  the  meanest  of  all  meanness  is,  to  forget 
God ;  to  refuse  to  give  your  heart  to  him  who  made 
it. — Augusta  Mooi-e. 

Half  the  troubles  for  which  men  go  slouching  to 
God  in  prayer,  are  occasioned  by  their  intolerable 
pride.  Many  of  our  cares  are  but  a  morbid  way  of 
looking  at  our  blessings.  We  let  our  blessings  be- 
come moldy,  and  then  call  them  curses. 

JS.  Ward  Beecher, 

A  vascillating  mind  never  accomplished  any  thing 
worthy  of  note.  There  is  nothing  like  a  fixed, 
steady  aim.  It  dignifies  your  nature,  and  insures 
complete  success. — Common  Observation. 

Bold  and  shameless  men  are  masters  of  half  the 
world. — Ibid. 

The  blessings  we  enjoy  are  not  the  fruit  of  our 
merit,  but  the  fruit  of  God's  mercy. 


246  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


He  who  does  not  labor  to  become  a  better  Cbris- 
tian  every  day,  is  entirely  deceived  in  supposing  he 
is  a  Christian  at  all. — D.  B.  Adams. 

How  very  few  ever  resolved  to  ascend  the  pinacle 
of  fame  and  honor,  but  what  have  left  a  good  con- 
science at  the  foot  of  the  ladder ! — Jones. 

Nature  hath  nothing  made  so  base,  but  can 
Read  some  instruction  to  the  wisest  man. — Aleyn. 

From  social  intercourse  are  derived  some  of  the 
higher  enjoyments  of  life. — Addison. 

Usefulness  and  baseness  can  not  exist  in  the  same 
thing. — Cicero. 

Many  persons  appear  religious  who  are  only 
religious  in  appearance ;  but  while  they  deceive 
others  with  a  false  show  of  holiness,  they  also  de- 
ceive themselves  with  the  false  hope  of  happiness. 

Great  Truths. 

Cares  kill  like  poisons,  and  mental  anguish  has 
driven  thousands  to  self-destruction. — Smead. 

It  is  said  of  many  a  man,  "  He  is  a  man  well  at 
at  ease  in  point  of  worldly  substance ;"  but  how 
rarely  is  it  added,  "And  is  knoivn  far  and  near  for 
his  charity  and  hospitality. — Miss  M.  Morrell. 

To  what  gulfs 
A  single  deviation  from  the  track 
Of  human  duties  leads ! — Byron. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  247 


Murmur  at  nothing ;  if  our  ills  are  reparable,  it 
is  ungrateful ;  if  remediless,  it  is  vain. — Colton. 

The  pernicious,  debilitating  tendencies  of  bodily 
pleasure  need  to  be  counteracted  by  the  invigorating 
exercises  of  bodily  labor ;  whereas  bodily  labor  with- 
out bodily  pleasure  converts  the  body  into  a  mere 
machine,  and  brutifics  the  soul. — Anon. 

If  strict  justice  be  not  the  rudder  of  all  our  other 
virtues,  the  faster  we  sail  the  farther  we  shall  find 
ourselves  from  "  that  haven  where  we  would  be." 

Colton. 

The  Athenians  erected  a  large  statue  to  ^sop, 
and  placed  him,  though  a  slave,  on  a  lasting  pedes- 
tal ;  to  show  that  the  way  to  honor  lies  open  indif- 
ferently to  all. — Phoedrus. 

Where  does  that  fish  swim  that  will  not  nibble  at 
the  hook  on  which  there  hangs  a  golden  bait  ? 

Who  knows  the  joys  of  friendship? 
The  trust,  security,  and  mutual  tenderness, 
The  double  joys,  where  each  is  glad  for  both  ? 
Friendship,  our  only  wealth,  our  last  retreat  and 

strength. 
Secure  against  ill  fortune  and  the  world. — Howe. 

Heaven  gives  us  friends  to  bless  the  present  scene ; 
Resumes  them  to  prepare  us  for  the  next. — Young. 

Grace  not  only  makes  a  man  more  a  man,  but  it 
makes  him  more  than  a  man. 


24:8  BOOK  OF   THOUGHT. 


Resolution  is  omnipotent ;  and  if  we  will  but 
solemnly  determine  to  make  the  most  and  best  of 
our  powers  and  capacities,  and  if,  to  this  end,  with 
"VVilberforce,  we  will  but  seize  and  improve  even  the 
shortest  intervals  of  possible  action  and  effort,  we 
shall  find  that  there  is  no  limit  to  our  advancement. 
"W^ithout  this  resolute  and  earnest  purpose,  the  best 
aid  and  means  are  of  little  worth,  but  with  it,  even 
the  weakest  are  mighty.  A  man  who  is  deeply  in 
earnest,  acts  upon  the  motto  of  the  pickaxe  upon  the 
old  seal :  "Either  I  will  find  a  way  or  make  one." 
He  has  somewhat  the  spirit  of  Bonaparte,  who,  when 
told  on  the  eve  of  battle,  that  circumstances  were 
against  him,  replied :  "  Circumstances  !  I  make  and 
control  circumstances — ^not  bow  to  them  !  " 

Rev.  Tryon  Edwards. 

The  diflBculty  of  deciding  partially  upon  our  own 
acts,  arises  from  the  circumstance  that  we  are  both 
judge  and  jury  in  our  own  cause,  and  consequently 
whatever  may  be  the  facts  in  the  case,  are  almost 
sure  to  render  a  favorable  verdict. — Smead. 

Idleness  paralyzes  all  exertion,  and  involves  the 
soul  in  a  dangerous  calm  on  the  great  sea  of  life. 

Wm.  T.  Jones. 

If  a  man  is  not  rising  upwards  to  be  an  angel, 
depend  upon  it,  he  is  sinking  downwards  to  be  a 
devil.  He  can  not  stop  at  the  beast.  The  most 
savage  of  men  are  not  beasts ;  they  are  worse — a 
great  deal  worse. — Coleridge. 


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The  best  defence  of  lying  that  I  ever  remember 
to  have  read,  is  the  remark  of  Charles  Lamb,  related 
by  Leigh  Hunt,  that  "  truth  is  precious,  and  not  to 
be  wasted  on  every  body." 

Emptiness  of  Mind. — Some  men  act  wisely  to 
counterfeit  a-  reservedness,  to  keep  their  chests 
locked,  not  for  fear  any  one  should  steal  treasure 
thence,  but  lest  some  one  should  look  in  and  see 
that  there  is  nothing  within  them. — Fuller. 

Duelling,  tbougb  barbarous  in  civilized,  is  a  highly 
civilized  institution  among  barbarous  people;  and 
when  compared  to  assassination,  is  a  prodigious  vic- 
tory gained  over  human  passions. — Sidney  Smith. 

*•  Though  the  number  of  the  children  of  Israel  be 
as  the  sand  of  the  sea,  a  remnant  shall  be  saved." 

The  whole  piece  belongs  to  the  devil,  but  God  cuts 
ofif  a  remnant  for  himself. 

Be  of  good  cheer,  I  have  overcome  the  world. 

John  16-33. 

True  merit,  like  a  river,  the  deeper  it  is  the  less 
noise  it  makes. — Halifax. 

Memory  depends  very  much  on  the  perspicuity, 
regularity,  and  order  of  our  thoughts. — Fuller. 

Society  is  the  atmosphere  of  souls;  and  we 
necessarily  imbibe  from  it  some  thing  which  is 
either  infectious  or  salubrious. — Rob.  Hall. 


250  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


The  defects  of  the  understanding,  like  those  of 
the  face,  grow  worse  as  we  grow  old. — Lacon. 

Correct  manner  of  teaching,  consists  in  an  active 
exercise  of  the  mind,  or  thinking  faculties,  both  of 
the  instructor  and  the  pupil. — Dr.  Wayland. 

There  is  no  saying  shocks  me  so  much  as  that 
which  I  so  often  hear,  "  that  a  man  does  not  know 
how  to  pass  his  time."  It  would  have  been  but  ill 
said  by  Methusalah  in  the  nine  hundred  and  sixty- 
ninth  year  of  his  age. — Cowley. 

When  dunces  call  us  fools,  without  proving  us  to 
be  so,  our  best  retort  is  to  prove  them  to  be  fools, 
without  condescending  to  call  them  so. — Colton. 

Pedantry  crams  our  heads  with  learned  lumber, 
and  takes  out  our  brains  to  make  room  for  it. 

Lacon, 

Many  reforms,  ridiculed  as  Utopian,  derided  as 
visionary,  and  declaimed  against  as  impracticable, 
will  be  realized  the  moment  the  march  of  human  • 
progress  has  effected  this  for  mankind :  that  of  en- 
abling them  to  see  their  true  interests,  and  disinter- 
ested enough  to  pursue  them. 

"Mirabeau,"  said  Rivaroi,  "is  capable  of  any 
thing  for  money ;  even  a  good  action." 

Any  institution  that  is  too  dignified  and  sacred 
for  investigation,  is  very  justly  to  be  suspected  of 
holding  error. — Rev.  John  M.  Harris. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGffT.  251 


Hypocrisy,  of  course,  delights  in  the  most  sub- 
lime speculations ;  for  never  intending  to  go  beyond 
speculation,  it  costs  nothing  to  have  it  magnificent. 

BurTce. 

Humanity  can  not  be  degraded  by  humiliation. 
It  is  its  very  character  to  submit  to  such  things. 
There  is  a  consanguinity  between  benevolence  and 
humility.     They  are  virtues  of  the  same  stock. 

Ihid. 

There  is  not  any  benefit  so  glorious  in  itself,  but 
it  may  yet  be  exceedingly  sweetened  and  improved 
by  the  manner  of  conferring  it.  The  virtue,  I  know, 
rests  in  the  intent ;  the  profit  in  the  judicious  appli- 
cation of  the  matter;  but,  the  beauty  and  ornament 
of  an  obligation,  lies  in  the  manner  of  it. — Seneca. 

Things  seen  through  the  medium  of  passion  are 
always  either  distorted,  diminished,  or  magnified, 
and  never  beheld  in  their  true  colors.  We  should 
carefully  cultivate  the  habit  of  viewing  things  cooly 
and  dispassionately. — A.  O.  N.  Morrell 

That  man  who  has  the  clearest  perception  of  his 
own  defects,  is  the  wisest  man.  '"  The  first  chapter 
of  fools  is  to  think  themselves  wise." — R.  B.  Gutter. 

"  They  Say,''  is  a  personage  of  very  questiona- 
ble veracity ;  therefore,  they  who  tell  tales  after  her, 
are  slanderers  and  liars.  They  say  he  is  worth 
nothing.  They  say  he  is  not  as  honest  as  he  might 
be.     T^iey  say  she  is  not  quite  as  good  a  stepmother 


252  BOOK   OF   THOUGHT. 


as  she  might  be.  They  say  she  entertains  too  many 
male  visitors  of  evenings.  They  my  he  is  as  good 
as  broken  up.  They  say  he  is  a  little  inclined  to  be 
lazy.  They  say  she  left  home  to  hide  her  shame. 
They  say  she  has  turned  out  to  be  a  poor  house- 
keeper. They  say  he  drinks.  They  say  she  is  doing 
no  good  for  herself.  Keep  on  your  guard  of  the 
many  persons  who  habitually  tell  tales  after  "  They 
say."  This  "  They  Say"  and  "  Common  Mumor" 
are  twin  sisters,  who,  in  their  lying  propensities  are 
as  much  alike  as  two  black-eyed  peas. 

Mrs.  R.  Morrell 

None  but  a  fool  can  suppose  that  he  has  a  mono- 
poly of  good  sense. — Rouchefoucaidd. 

Mankind  are  more  inclined  to  give  praise  to  the 
deeds,  or  writers  of  antiquity,  than  to  do  justice  to 
cotemporary  merit. — Tacitus. 

The  man  who  has  got  a  good  son-in-law,  has 
gained  a  son ;  but  he  who  has  found  a  bad  one,  has 
lost  a  daughter. — French  proverb. 

The  continuance  of  good  fortune  forms  no  ground 
of  ultimate  success. — Common  Observation. 

In  civil  cases  at  law,  the  will  or  intention  is  taken 
for  the  act,  but  in  criminal  cases  it  is  not. — Fact. 

He  that  succeeds  best  in  keeping  his  necessities 
private,  is  the  most  likely  to  have  them  redressed. 

Croldsmiih. 


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The  consumation  of  madness  is,  deliberately  and 
intentionally  making  work  for  repentance. — Nevins. 

The  two  men  who  were  most  interested  in  finding 
Christ  guilty,  bore  their  testimony  to  his  innocence; 
one  saying,  "  I  have  betrayed  innocent  blood,"  and 
the  other,  "I  find  no  fault  in  him." — Pres. Edwards. 

Sentiments  bind  man  to  man,  but  opinions  divide 
them. 

If  you  want  a  favor  of  a  man,  laugh  at  his  jokes. 
If  there  is  any  thing  that  the  whole  human  family 
have  a  weakness  for,  it  is  to  pass  for  wits. — Lacon. 

It  is  almost  as  easy  to  keep  fish  alive  out  of  water, 
as  to  preserve  spirituality  of  mind  amid  the  smiles 
of  the  world. 

The  Abbe  Malot  expressing  a  doubt  to  Richelieu, 
how  many  Masses  would  save  a  soul,  answered, 
"pho!  you  are  a  blockhead — -just  as  many  as  it 
would  take  snow-balls  to  heat  an  oven." 

World's  Laconics. 

Wet  feet  are  some  of  the  most  effective  agents 
death  has  in  the  field.  It  has  peopled  more  graves 
than  all  the  gory  engines  of  war.  Those  who  neg- 
lect to  keep  their  feet  dry  are  suicides. — Ahernethy. 

Talent  and  worth  are  the  only  external  grounds 
of  distinction  among  men.  To  these  the  Almighty 
has  aflSxed  his  everlasting  patent  of  nobility. 

Sedgwiclc. 


254  BOOK   OF  THOUGHT. 


The  father  and  mother  who  awaken  in  one  child 
the  idea  and  love  of  goodness,  who  awaken  in  him 
a  strength  of  will  to  resist  temptation,  surpass  in  in- 
fluence, a  Napoleon  breaking  the  world  to  his  sway. 

Charming. 

Nature  makes  us  poor  only  when  we  need  neces- 
saries ;  custom  gives  the  name  of  poverty  to  the 
want  of  superfluities. — Johnson. 

Do  all  you  can  to  stand,  and  then  fear  lest  you 
fall,  and  you  will  be  very  likely  to  stand. — Edwards. 

Nothinnr  is  more  terrible  than  active  ignorance. 
It  was  this  that  put  the  Savior  of  man  to  death. 

A  sober  person  seeks  to  weigh  the  true  value  of 
things,  and  to  lay  no  treasure  in  trifles. 

Ohservation. 

0  Lord,  how  manifold  are  thy  works;  in  wisdom 
hast  thou  made  them  all. — Bible. 

He  who  makes  an  idol  of  his  interest,  will  often 
make  a  martyr  of  his  integrity. 

Men  do  not  feel  for  what  end  they  are  born  into 
this  world  until  just  as  they  are  about  to  leave  it. 

It  is  wonderful  to  see  persons  of  the  best  sense, 
passing  away  a  dozen  hours  together  in  shuffling  and 
dividing  a  pack  of  cards ;  with  no  other  conversation 
but  a  few  game  phrases,  and  no  other  ideas  but  those 
of  black  or  red  spots  ranged  together  in  difilerent 
figures. — Spectator. 


BOOK  OP  THOUGHT.  255 


Society  suffers  very  much  by  the  trifler  who  hates 
sobriety  and  seriousness. — Miss  Myrtilla  Morrell. 

Never  use  coarse  and  violent  language ;  for  a  sin- 
gle rough  and  hasty  word,  may  kindle  all  the  fires 
of  vanity  in  the  person  addressed.  Solomon  was 
aware  of  this.  He  says,  "  a  soft  answer  turneth 
away  wrath,  but  grievous  words  stir  up  anger." 

Ihid. 

The  true  lady  is  remarkably  clean  and  neat  in 
her  person,  and  does  not  delight  in  fine  silks  or  vel- 
vets, or  gorgeous  ornaments. — D.  B.  Adams. 

Any  grandeur  of  estate  sits  upon  an  enlarged 
mind,  with  the  easiness  of  a  well  fitting  garment 
that  has  been  some  time  worn ;  and  he  presents  in 
no  way  the  appearance  of  a  new  man. 

Youth  changes  its  inclination  through  heat  of 
blood ;  old  age  perseveres  in  its,  through  the  power 
of  custom. — Rouchefoucauld. 

Ne'er  till  to-morrow's  light  delay 
What  may  as  well  be  done  to-day — 
Ne'er  do  the  thing  you'd  wish  undone, 
Viewed  by  to-morrow's  rising  sun. 

S.  G.  Goodrich. 

See  first  that  the  design  is  wise  and  just. 
That  ascertained,  pursue  it  resolutely ; 
Do  not  for  one  repulse  forego  the  purpose 
That  you  resolve  to  effect. — Shakspeare. 


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A  ^yhole  lifetime's  experience  of  an  eminent  phy- 
sician :  "  Keep  your  head  cool,  the  whole  surface  of 
the  body  daily  washed,  the  bowels  open,  the  feet 
comfortably  warm  and  dry,  and  you  will  scarcely 
ever  need  a  doctor." 

"Fashion,"  it  is  said,  "  is  the  great  race  of  the 
rich  to  keep  ahead  of  the  poor,  who  follow  at  the 
top  of  their  speed." 

Gambling  is  one  of  the  great  high-ways  to  ruin. 
It  arises  from  the  vain  hope  of  acquiring  money  and 
property  without  labor.  Its  most  insidious  form  is 
that  of  lottery ;  for  many  who  would  recoil  at  the 
idea  of  being  seen  in  a  gambling  saloon,  hesitate  not 
to  buy  lottery  tickets.  This  vice  sometimes  becomes 
a  perfect  mania,  driving  its  victim  to  utter  despair, 
and  not  unfrequently  to  self-murder.  Professors 
of  the  religion  of  Christ  have  been  known  to  pur- 
chase lottery  tickets. — Smead. 

Preaching. — The  object  of  preaching  the  gospel 
is,  constantly  to  remind  mankind  of  what  they  are 
constantly  forgetting ;  not  to  supply  the  defects  of 
human  intelligence,  but  to  fortify  the  feebleness  of 
human  resolutions ;  to  recall  mankind  from  the  by- 
paths where  they  turn,  into  that  broad  path  of  sal- 
vation which  all  know,  but  few  tread. — Sid.  Smith. 

I  is  one  of  the  smallest  words  in  the  English  lan- 
guage; and  yet  judging  by  its  carriage  and  preten- 
sions, it  is  the  very  proudest. — Guesses  at  Truth. 


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Never  incline  to  buy  your  own  profit  with  the  loss 
of  others,  or  your  own  ease  and  comfort  with  the 
suffering  of  others. — Mrs.  Fredonia  Pitts. 

Kings  and  their  subjects,  rich  and  poor,  masters 
and  their  slaves,  find  a  common  level  in  two  places 
at  least — at  the  foot  of  the  cross  and  in  the  grave. 

A  sound  head,  an  honest  heart,  and  a  humble 
spirit,  are  the  three  best  guides  through  this  laby- 
rinth of  life. — D.  B.  Adams. 

What  we  wish  to  do,  we  believe  we  can  do ;  but 
when  we  do  not  wish  to  do  a  thing,  we  view  it  as  an 
impossibility. — R.  B.  Cutter. 

Who  is  wise  ?  He  that  learns  from  every  one. 
Who  is  powerful  ?  He  that  governs  his  passions. 
Who  is  rich  ?     He  that  is  content. — Miscellanies. 

Be  thou  the  first  true  merit  to  befriend ; 

His  praise  is  lost,  who  waits  till  all  commend. 

Pope. 

What  fate  imposes,  men  must  needs  abide ; 
It  boots  not  to  resist  both  wind  and  tide. 

Shakspeare. 

He  deserves  small  trust, 
Who  is  not  privy  counselor  to  himself. — Forde. 

There's  a  proud  modesty  in  merit ! 

Averse  from  asking,  and  resolved  to  pay 

Ten  times  the  gifts  it  asks. — JDryden. 
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258  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


There's  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends, 
Rough  hew  them  as  we  may. — Shakspeare. 

Who  finds  not  providence  all  good  and  wise, 
Alike  in  what  it  gives  and  what  denies  ? — Pope. 

Dissentions,  like  small  streams,  at  first  begun. 
Scarce  seen  they  rise,  but  gather  as  they  run. 

Garth. 

Who  will  not  give 
Some  portion  of  his  ease,  his  blood,  his  wealth. 
For  others  good,  is  a  poor,  frozen  churl. — J.  Bailie. 

Dearly  bought  the  hidden  treasure,  finer  feelings  can 

bestow ; 
Chords  that   vibrate   sweetest   pleasure,  thrill   the 

deepest  notes  of  woe. — Burns. 

It  is  almost  as  difficult  to  make  a  man  unlearn  his 
errors  as  his  knowledge. — Colton. 

Men  are  never  so  ridiculous  for  the  qualities  they 
have,  as  for  those  they  aflfect  to  have. — Charron. 

Solitude,  however  some  may  rave. 
Seeming  a  sanctuary,  proves  a  grave ; 
A  sepulchre  in  which  the  living  lie. 
Where  all  good  qualities  grow  sick  and  die. 

Cowper 

The  ingredients  of  health  and  long  life,  are 
Great  temperance,  open  air. 
Easy  labor,  little  care. — Sir  P.  Sidney. 


BOOK  OP  THOUGHT.  259 


The  sluggard  is  wiser  in  his  own  conceit  than 
seven  men  who  can  render  a  reason. — Solomon. 

Science  adorns  and  enriches  religion  ;  and  religion 
ennobles  and  sanctifies  science. — Lacon. 

A  good  conscience  is  to  the  soul,  what  health  is  to 
the  body.  An  ague  may  as  well  shake  the  sturdy 
oak  of  ten  century's  growth,  or  a  fever  dry  up  Lake 
Superior,  as  either  of  them,  or  any  other  thing, 
shake,  dry  up,  or  impair  the  delights  of  a  good  con- 
science. 

Fear  God  and  keep  his  commandments,  for  this 
is  the  whole  duty  of  man, — Solomon. 

Mark  the  perfect  man,  and  behold  the  upright ; 
for  the  end  of  that  man  is  peace. — God. 

An  inordinate  love  of  amusement,  tends  to  de- 
grade all  the  powers  of  the  understanding. 

Allison. 

We  can  judge  of  no  one,  in  first  interviews,  only 
from  appearances.  He,  therefore,  whose  exterior  is 
agreeable,  begins  well  in  any  society. — Jo.  Dennie. 

Avoid_  imitation  ;  and  avoid  equally  shyness  and 
forwardness. — Means  and  Ends. 

An  obstinate  man  does  not  hold  opinions,  but 
opinions  hold  him. — Butler. 

Conscience  in  most  men,  is  but  the  anticipation 
of  the  opinions  of  others. — Taylor  s  Statesman. 


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The  richest  genius,  like  the  most  fertile  soil,  when 
uncultivated,  shoots  up  into  rankest  weeds. — Hume. 

No  one  can  lay  himself  under  obligation  to  do  a 
■wrong. — Fuller. 

A  man  without  a  predominent  inclination  is  not 
likely  to  be  either  useful  or  happy.  He  who  is 
everything  is  nothing. — Sharpe. 

The  most  eflfectual  way  of  attacking  vice  is,  by 
setting  up  virtuous  pursuits  against  it. 

Many  men  deserve  praise  for  what  they  have  not 
done,  because  they  would  willingly  have  done  it, 
and  it  was  proper  to  be  done. 

True  glory  consists  in  doing  what  deserves  to  be 
written ;  in  writing  what  deserves  to  be  read  ;  and 
in  so  living  as  to  make  the  world  happier  and  better 
for  our  living  in  it. — Pliny. 

A  stout  heart,  diligent  industry,  and  a  steadfast 
reliance  on  God's  good  providence,  prepare  us  for 
all  casualties. 

"  Earnest  strivings,  nerve  and  strengthen — 
Long  endurance  wins  the  crown : 
When  the  evening  shades  lengthen, 
We  shall  lay  our  burdens  down." 

Fredonia  Pitts. 

Never  so  accomodate  yourself,  as  to  seem  per- 
fectly regardless  of  the  comfort  of  others. 

Miss  M.  Morrell. 


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A  knave  in  disguise  is  bad  enough,  but  a  confess- 
ing knave  is  worse.  There  is  a  lurking  sense  of 
decency  in  hypocritical  professions  of  goodness  ;  but 
toward  blatant  rascality  there  can  be  no  sentiments 
but  those  of  disgust. — Horace  Greely. 

Old  age  has  deformities  enough  of  its  own  with- 
out adding  that  of  vice. — Cato. 

Vanity  keeps  men  in  favor  with  themselves,  who 
are  out  of  favor  with  all  others. — Shakspeare. 

It  is  distrust  of  God  to  be  troubled  about  what  is 
to  come ;  impatience  against  God,  to  be  troubled 
with  what  is  present;  and  anger  at  God,  to  be 
troubled  for  what  is  past. — Patrick. 

Next  to  the  satisfaction  arising  from  a  sense  of 
conscious  rectitude  before  God  and  man,  good  health 
is  the  greatest  blessing  allotted  to  mortals. 

Better  a  crust,  a  garret  to  dwell  in,  a  bed  of  straw, 
and  very  plain  garments,  with  good  health,  than  all 
the  luxuries  of  the  rich  with  ill  health. 

Thousands  perish  from  excess  of  food,  and  from 
unfitness  of  food,  for  one  who  dies  for  lack  of  it ; 
and  more  are  destroyed  by  gluttony  than  by  drunk- 
enness.— Common  Observation. 

Seize  the  moment  of  excited  curiosity  on  any  sub- 
ject, to  solve  your  doubts ;  for  if  you  let  it  pass,  the 
desire  may  never  return,  and  you  may  remain  in 
ignorance. —  Wirt. 


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Salvation  from  our  friends  is  more  diflScnlt  than 
from  our  enemies,  and  the  most  difficult,  is  salvation 
from  ourselves. 

"When  a  friend  once  told  Plato,  what  scandalous 
stories  his  enemies  had  propagated  concerning  him, 
"  I  will  live  so,"  replied  the  philosopher,  "  that  no- 
body shall  believe  them." 

If  we  are  not  right  toward  God,  we  can  never  be 
so  toward  man  ;  and  this  is  forever  true,  whether 
wits  or  rakes  allow  it  or  not. — Lord  Chatham. 

It  is  no  new  thing  in  the  history  of  the  passing 
world,  for  great  projectors  or  inventors  to  be  de- 
frauded of  their  honors  by  the  stupidity  of  mankind, 
who,  with  lamentable  perversity  refuse  their  faith  to 
the  most  brilliant  object,  unless  accompanied  by  the 
testimony  of  vulgar  experiment. 

Public  sentiment  signifies  the  common  march  of 
good  men's  thoughts. — S.  Ward  Beecher. 

The  moral  progression  of  a  people  can  scarcely 
begin,  until  they  are  independent. — Martineau. 

An  indiscreet  man  is  more  hurtful  than  an  ill- 
natured  one ;  for  the  latter  will  only  attack  his  ene- 
mies and  those  he  wishes  ill ;  the  other  injures,  indif- 
ferently, both  friends  and  enemies. — Addison. 

It  is  purely  an  Americanism  that  holds  it  to  be 
undignified  to  walk  when  one  can  ride. 


BOOK  OF   THOUGHT.  263 


Yet  triuTDph  not,  oh  Time,  strong  towers  decay, 
But  a  great  name  shall  never  pass  away. 

Park  Benjamin. 

Though  a  host  should  encamp  against  me,  my 
heart  shall  not  fear. — Psa.  27 — 3. 

There  remaineth,  therefore,  a  rest  to  the  people 
of  dodL.—Heh.  4—9. 

Behold  a  king  shall  reign  in  righteousness. 

Isa.  32—1. 

Bring  forth  the  best  robe,  and  put  it  on  him. 

Luke  15—22. 

He  raiseth  up  the  poor  out  of  the  dust,  that  He 
may  set  him  among  princes. — 1  Sarn.  2 — 8. 

Health,  wealth,  and  power,  are  the  three  great 
apostles  of  practical  atheism. — Colton. 

The  prudent  and  frugal  commonly  have  more  to 
spare  than  men  of  great  fortunes. — Johnson. 

Every  breath  we  draw,  we  take  into  the  lungs 
one  and  a  half  to  two  pints  of  air;  so  that  it  requires 
about  two  and  a  half  gallons  of  pure  air  a  minute,  or 
sixty  hogsheads  every  twenty- four  hours,  properly 
to  supply  the  lungs.  How  important,  then,  to  health, 
to  have  houses  well  ventilated,  and  not  to  sleep  in 
small  close  rooms. —  World's  Laconics. 

Give  merit  its  due  praise,  and  embrace  the  truth 
wherever  found. 


264  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Passtime  is  a  word  which  should  never  be  used  but 
in  a  bad  sense.  It  is  vile  to  say  a  thing  is  agreeable, 
because  it  helps  to  pass  the  time  away. — Shenstone. 

We  should  frequently  revolve  the  experiments 
which  we  have  hitherto  made  upon  life,  that  we  may 
gain  wisdom  from  our  mistakes,  and  caution  from  our 
miscarriages. — D.  B.  Adams. 

For  the  cure  of  drunkenness,  drink  cold  water ; 
for  health,  rise  early  of  mornings ;  to  be  happy,  be 
honest ;  to  please  all,  mind  your  own  business. 

Lacon. 

Men  who  will  not  entertain  a  weary,  pennyless 
fellow-man  a  single  night;  willingly,  for  their  whole 
lifetime,  entertain  five  sworn  enemies  of  peace  :  viz., 
avarice,  ambition,  anger,  envy,  and  pride. 

Mrs.  H.  K  Cutter. 

No  slave  is  more  abject  than  he  who  tries  to  keep 
ahead  in  the  great  race  of  fashions.  Alexander  the 
Great  had  a  wry  neck,  and  this  created  a  fashion,  so 
that  his  courtiers  all  held  their  heads  on  one  side. 
Was  this  more  ridiculous  than  what  the  votaries  of 
fashion  must  continually  do  ? — Todd. 

The  love  of  glory  creates  heroes,  the  contempt  of 
it,  great  men. — Lacon. 

Purity  is  felt  to  be  as  necessary  to  the  mind  as 
breath  to  the  body;  and  its  absence  alike  the  inevi- 
table source  of  pain. — Morace  Greely. 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  265 


Take  heed  to  yourselves,  lest  at  any  time  your 
hearts  be  overcharged  with  the  cares  of  this  life. 

Luke  21—34. 

No  man  should  so  act  as  to  take  advantage  of 
another's  folly.  This  is  a  precept  which  those  must 
admire  in  theory,  who  outrage  in  practice. — Cicero. 

There  is  no  gain  so  certain  as  that  which  arises 
from  sparing  what  you  have. — Latin  Proverb. 

If  you  need  a  physician  employ  three — a  cheerful 
mind,  rest,  and  a  temperate  diet. — Horace. 

Reserve  in  speaking,  and  in  revealing  one's  self 
to  very  few,  are  the  best  securities  both  of  peace  and 
a  good  understanding  with  the  world,  and  of  the  in- 
ward peace  of  our  own  mind. — Kempis. 

A  soul  without  reflection,  like  a  pile 
Without  inhabitants,  to  ruin  runs. — Young. 

The  first  consideration  a  wise  man  fixes  upon,  is 
the  great  end  of  his  creation  ;  what  it  is,  and 
wherein  it  consists  ;  the  next  thing  is,  of  the  most 
proper  means  to  that  end. —  Walker. 

A  more  glorious  victory  can  not  be  gained  over 
another  man  than  this,  that  when  the  injury  began 
on  his  part,  the  kindness  should  begin  on  ours. 

Tillottson. 

I  never  wished  to  promise  that  which  I  had  not  a 

moral  certainty  of  performing. —  Washington. 

(23) 


266  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Most  persons  seem  to  have  so  forgotten  their 
catechism,  as  to  believe  that  their  onlv  duty  is  to 
themselves. 

Narrow-minded  persons  do  not  think  beyond  the 
little  sphere  of  their  own  vision.  "  The  snail,"  says 
the  Hindoos,  "  sees  nothing  but  his  own  shell,  and 
thinks  it  the  grandest  palace  in  the  universe." 

Sidney  Smith. 

There  is  not  an  instance  known  of  a  vigorous 
friendship  that  ever  struck  root  in  a  bosom  chilled 
by  years. — Fitzozborne's  Letters. 

Reverie. — Do  any  thing  innocent  rather  than 
give  yourself  up  to  reverie.  I  can  speak  on  tliis 
point  from  experience ;  for  at  one  period  of  my  life, 
I  was  a  dreamer  and  a  castle-builder.  Visions  of  the 
distant  and  future  took  the  place  of  present  duty 
and  activity.  I  spent  hours  in  reverie.  The  body 
suffered  as  well  as  the  mind.  The  imagination 
threatened  to  inflame  the  passions,  and  I  found  if  I 
meant  to  be  virtuous,  I  must  dismiss  my  musings. 
The  conflict  was  a  hard  one ;  but  I  resolved,  prayed, 
resisted,  sought  refuge  in  occupation,  and  at  length 
triumphed. — Memoir  of  Wm.  E.  Channing. 

Four  things  are  grievously  empty :  a  head  with- 
out brains,  a  wit  without,  judgment,  a  heart  without 
honesty,  and  a  purse  without  money. — Bishop  Earle. 

Christianity  commands  us  to  pass  by  injuries*, 
policy,  to  let  them  pass  by  us. — Franklin. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  267 


In  ancient  times  the  most  celebrated  precept  was, 
*'  Know  thyself;"  in  modern  times  it  has  been  sup- 
planted by  the  more  fashionable  maxim,  "  Know  thy 
neighbor,  and  every  thing  about  him. — Johnson. 

By  doing  good  with  his  property,  a  man,  as  it 
•were,  stamps  the  image  of  God  upon  it,  and  makes 
it  pass  current  for  the  merchandise  of  heaven. 

Lacon. 

A  great  object  is  always  answered,  whenever  any 
property  is  transferred  from  hands  that  are  not  fit 
for  it,  to  those  that  are. — Burke. 

The  counsel  of  the  town  clerk  of  Ephesus,  men- 
tioned in  the  nineteenth  of  Acts,  is,  to  "  do  nothing 
rashly."  What  mischief,  trouble,  and  sorrow  would 
be  avoided  by  heeding  this  counsel. — D.  B.  Adams. 

Knaves  can  hardly  comprehend  how  any  man  can 
be  honest. — Henry  Clay. 

EndeaTor  to  keep  alive  in  your  breast,  that  little 
spark  of  celestial  fire  called  conscience. 

Washington. 

Dissimulation  in  youth  is  the  forerunner  of  perfidy 
in  old  age. — Scott's  Lessons. 

He  who  jests  upon,  or  abuses  a  man  who  is  drunk, 
injures  the  absent. — Ibid. 

Conscience  should  ever  be  much  more  regarded 
than  fame. — B.  B.  Adams. 


268  BOOK   OP   THOUGHT. 


It  is  quite  an  empty  joy  to  appear  better  than 
you  are ;  but  a  great  blessing  to  be  what  you  ought 
to  be. — Just  Observation. 

Those  v?ho  are  most  faulty,  are  the  most  prone  to 
find  faults  in  others. — Ibid. 

Narrow  minds  think  nothing  right  which  is  above 
their  own  shallow  comprehension. 

31iss  A.  G.N.  Morrell. 

Most  persons  act  as  if  they  were  born  to  live, 
instead  of  "  to  die."  While  the  foolish  prepare  for 
living,  the  wise  prepare  for  dying. 

Henry  "Ward  Beecher  is  one  of  the  very  few 
men  who  will  please  posterity,  for  he  pleases  him- 
self by  fearlessly  and  independently  choosing  his 
own  course.  He  is  a  man  who  is  himself.  I  am 
sure  he  will  not  look  upon  this  as  flattery,  for  he 
knows  that  few  men  are  ever  flattered  who  do  not 
court  flattery  ;  just  as  few  men  ever  hear  slanderous 
reports,  who  do  not  suffer  their  ear  to  become  the 
grave  of  others'  characters. 

Henry  Clay  said  he  would  "  rather  be  right  than 
be  president."  This  sentiment  has  immortalized  his 
name. — Mrs.  R.  Morrell. 

Gambling,  liquor-selling,  and  liquor-drinking,  are 
twin  sisters,  who  are  much  more  fruitful  than  Queen 
Victoria.  They  people  our  chain-gangs,  work-houses, 
jails,  and  penitentiaries ;  and  I  like  to  have  said, 
h— 1. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  269 


The  history  of  all  the  world  tells  us,  that  immoral 
means  will  ever  intercept  good  ends. 

S.  T.  Colendge. 

When  men  grow  virtuous  m  their  old  age,  they 
are  merely  making  a  sacrifice  to  God  of  the  devil's 
leavings. — Sivift. 

Cast  thy  hread  upon  the  waters ;  for  thou  shalt 
find  it  after  many  days. — God. 

I  have  heard  a  grave  divine  say  that  God  has  two 
dwelling  places ;  one  in  heaven,  and  the  other  in  a 
meek  and  thankful  heart. —  Walton. 

Many  parents  use  their  children  only  as  a  kind  of 
spool  on  which  they  reel  off  their  own  experience ; 
and  they  are  bound  and  corded  until  they  perish  by 
inanity,  or  break  all  bonds  and  cords,  and  rush  to 
ruin  by  reaction. — H.  Ward  Beecher. 

The  human  heart  opens  only  to  the  heart  that 
opens  in  return. — Miss  Edgworth. 

Curiosity  is  a  kernel  of  the  forbidden  fruit,  which 
still  sticketh  in  the  throat  of  the  natural  man,  some- 
times to  the  danger  of  his  choking. — Fuller. 

God  pardons  like  a  mother,  who  kisses  the  offence 
into  everlasting  forgetfulness. — H.  Ward  Beecher. 

To  be  traduced  by  ignorant  tongues. 

Is  the  rough  brake  that  virtue  must  go  through. 

ShaJcspeare. 


270  BOOK   OF  THOUGHT. 


Nature  is  content  with  very  little ;  yet  men  com- 
plain of  many  wants. 

A  right  judgment 

Draws  us  a  profit  from  all  things  we  see. 

ShiiTcspeare. 

He  that  hath  a  trade,  hath  an  estate ;  and  he  that 
hath  a  calling,  hath  a  place  of  profit  and  honor. 

Franklin. 

It  is  impossible  to  make  people  understand  their 
ignorance,  for  it  requires  knowledge  to  perceive  it, 
and  therefore,  he  that  can  perceive  it  hath  it  not. 

Bishop  Taylor. 

It  is  the  bounty  of  nature  that  we  live,  but  of 
philosophy,  that  we  live  well ;  which  is,  in  truth,  a 
greater  benefit  than  life  itself. — Seneca. 

Secret,  any  thing  made  known  to  every  body  in  a 
whisper. — Observation. 

The  last  best  fruit  which  comes  to  perfection,  even 
in  the  kindliest  soul,  is  tenderness  to  the  hard,  for- 
bearance toward  the  unforbearing,  warmth  of  heart 
toward  the  cold,  and  philanthropy  toward  the  mis- 
anthrope.— Jean  Paul. 

Resolution  is  the  youngest  daughter  of  Destiny, 
and  may  win  from  her  fond  mother  almost  any  favor 
she  chooses  to  ask. — Lowell. 

Without  kind  offices  and  useful  services,  wherever 
the  power  and  opportunity  occur,  love  would  be  a 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  271 


hollow  pretence.  Yet  what  noble  mind  would  not 
be  offended,  if  it  were  thought  to  value  the  love  for 
the  sake  of  the  services,  and  not  rather  the  services 
for  the  sake  of  the  love. — Coleridge. 

The  man  who  travels  to  the  most  desirable  home, 
has  strong  desire  all  the  way,  yet  his  present  busi- 
ness is  his  travel,  and  conveyance,  and  company; 
and  hotels,  and  railroads,  and  steamboats,  and  con- 
sequent weariness,  will  necessarily  take  up  much  of 
his  sensible  thought,  and  of  his  talk  and  action ;  in- 
deed it  would  seem  that  the  necessary  business  of 
the  way,  occupies  more  thought  than  his  home. 

D.  B.  Adamsy  M.  D. 

Who  are  they,  for  the  most  part,  that  would  have 
all  mankind  look  backward  instead  of  forward,  and 
regulate  their  conduct  by  things  that  have  been 
done?  Those  who  are  the  most  ignorant  as  to  all 
things  that  are  doing. — Colton. 

Many  persons  are  so  ignorant  that,  if  they  can 
not  talk  on  personalities,  they  can  not  say  any 
thing. — 3Ii88  M.  Morrell. 

In  this  age  of  book  deluge,  it  is  necessary  to  wear 
out  one  pair  of  eyes,  to  find  out  what  is  proper  to 
read. — Anont/mous. 

Teach  young  persons  to  rely  upon  their  own 
efforts,  to  be  frugal,  and  industrious,  and  you  have 
furnished  them  with  a  productive  capital  which  no 
man  can  ever  wrest  from  them. 


272  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


Few  people  think  better  of  others  than  of  them- 
selves, nor  do  they  readily  allow  the  existence  of 
any  virtue,  of  which  they  perceive  no  traces  in  their 
own  minds  ;  for  which  reason  it  is  next  to  impossi- 
ble to  persuade  a  rogue  that  you  are  an  honest 
man. — Fielding. 

There  is  no  better  way  of  preventing  dissipation 
than  by  diffusing  a  taste  for  literature. — Evelyn. 

Poverty  eclipses  the  brightest  virtues,  and  is  the 
very  sepulchre  of  brave  designs,  depriving  a  man  of 
the  means  to  accomplish  what  nature  has  fitted  him 
for,  and  stifling  the  noblest  thoughts  in  embryo. 

TurJcish  Spy. 

The  success  of  individuals  in  life  is  chiefly  owing 
to  their  own  resources. 

A  fondness  for  low  company,  is  generally  the 
consequence  of  ignorance  and  want  of  taste. 

If  ever  you  doubt,  be  sure  you  take  not  the  wrong 
course. 

Good  health  is  but  a  proper  mixture  of  pure  air, 
of  wholesome  food,  of  physical  amusements,  of  men- 
tal recreation,  of  moral  pleasures,  of  sparkling  Avater, 
of  habits  of  industry,  and  sweet  naps  of  sleep. 

Little-minded  people's  thoughts  move  in  such 
small  circles,  that  five  minutes  conversation  gives 
you  an  arc  long  enough  to  determine  their  whole 
curve. 


BOOK  OP  THOUGHT.  273 


Franklin  seized  the  lightning  by  the  tail,  held  it 
fast,  and  earned  it ;  Morse  put  clothes  on  it,  and 
taught  it  how  to  read  and  write  and  do  errands. 

The  teeth  of  all  persons,  not  defective  in  their 
organization,  maybe  preserved  through  life  by  early 
and  regular  attention  to  personal  cleanliness,  by 
■washing  the  mouth  and  teeth  with  pure  water,  ap- 
plied with  the  finger,  after  meals,  especially  after 
supper,  or  before  retiring  to  sleep. 

The  roses  of  pleasure  seldom  last  long  enough  to 
adorn  the  brow  of  him  who  plucks  them. — Blair. 

The  hoary  head  is  a  crown  of  glory,  if  it  be  found 
in  the  way  of  righteousness. — Solomon. 

Delight  in  accuracy  of  perception  and  truthfulness 
in  all  the  details  of  statement,  should  be  inculcated 
as  some  of  the  most  valuable  elements  of  education 
and  character. — Old  Teacher. 

He  that  followeth  after  righteousness  and  mercy, 
findeth  life,  righteousness,  and  honor. — God. 

Few  are  mindful  to  live  well,  though  it  is  in  the 
power  of  all  to  do  so  ;  but  many  are  anxious  to  live 
long,  though  this  is  in  the  power  of  none. 

Miss  A.  G.  N.  Morrell. 

The  manner  of  speaking  is  as  important  as  the 
matter. — Chesterfield. 

Sacrifice  is  inseperable  from  the  idea  of  moral 
■worship  or  virtue. 


274  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


We  should  command  our  appetites  and  our  pas- 
sions, and  keep  them  in  due  order,  within  the  bounds 
of  reason  and  religion. 

"  The  simple  position  of  the  body  is  worthy  of 
profound  study.  All  other  things  being  equal,  we 
may  distinguish  a  gentleman  as  far  as  we  can  see 
him,  by  the  position  in  which  he  stands.  That  posi- 
tion may  reveal  his  whole  character.  The  walk  tells 
the  whole  story  of  ^person's  life,  and  character,  and 
education." 

If  a  man  has  no  shoes  nor  means  of  procuring 
them,  there  is  yet  comfort  even  for  him:  just  let 
him  think  of  some  poor  fellow  who  has  no  feet. 

There  is  nothing  in  this  world  so  fiendish  as  the 
conduct  of  a  mean  man  when  he  has  the  power  to 
revenge  himself  upon  a  noble  one  in  adversity.  It 
takes  a  man  to  make  a  devil ;  and  the  fittest  man 
for  such  a  purpose  is  a  snarling,  waspish,  red-hot, 
fiery  creditor. — S.  Ward  Beeeher. 

The  nature  that  can  domineer  over,  and  insult  the 
needy,  the  helpless,  the  unfortunate,  is  ignoble  in 
the  superlative  degree. — Augusta  Moore. 

Disease  will  cripple  the  mightiest  energies,  ener- 
vate the  strongest  intellect,  unnerve  the  most  stal- 
wart arm,  and  blight  the  fairest?-  prospects.  Truly 
can  we  say  that  health  is  the  first  pre-requisite  to 
success  in  the  true  objects  of  life. 

Rev.  Geo.  S.  Weaver. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  275 


A  noble  man  compares  and  estimates  himself  by 
an  idea  which  is  higher  than  himself,  and  a  mean 
man  by  one  which  is  lower  than  himself.  The  one 
produces  aspiration  ;  the  other,  ambition.  Ambition 
is  the  way  in  which  a  ^^llga^  man  aspires. 

S.  Ward  Beecher. 

Energy,  industry,  discretion,  and  economy,  will 
enable  a  family  to  live  well,  and  thrive  almost  any 
■where.  It  is  the  very  best  of  Economy  to  be  set- 
tled.— jD.  B.  Adams. 

Indulge  not  the  disposition  to  disparage  the  mo- 
tives and  conduct  of  others. — F.  31.  Pitts. 

It  requires  self-control  to  exercise  a  proper  au- 
thority over  others.  Self-conquest  is  the  greatest 
victory  that  man  can  achieve. — ff.  Atni  (Tones. 

Providence  has  made  children  ignorant,  helpless, 
and  dependent,  that  they  may  be  trained  to  obedi- 
ence, to  order,  to  virtue. — ff.  N.  Cutter. 

Law  is  said  to  be  the  perfection  of  human  reason, 
the  practice,  in  many  of  our  courts,  is  the  perfection 
of  human  rascality. 

The  habits  and  ideas  of  a  people  are  not  to  be 
changed  by  legal  enactment. 

Nothing  hinders  the  constant  agreement  of  people 
who  live  together,  but  vanity  and  selfishness. 

Lacon. 


276  BOOK   OP    THOUGHT. 


Good  will,  like  a  good  name,  is  got  by  many  ac- 
tions, and  lost  by  one. — Jeffrey. 

Physic,  for  the  most  part,  is  nothing  but  the  sub- 
stitute for  exercise  and  temperance. — Addison. 

How  is  the  world  deceived  by  noise  and  show ! 
Alas  !  how  different  to  pretend  and  Jcnow. — Hill. 

A  little  girl  looking  intensely  upon  the  starry 
expanse  said :  "  Ma,  I  have  been  thinking  if  the 
wrong  side  of  heaven  is  so  beautiful,  what  will  the 
right  side  be." 

"  That  very  law  which  moulds  the  tear. 
And  bids  it  trickle  from  its  source, 
That  law  preserves  this  world  a  sphere, 
And  guides  the  planets  in  their  course." 

Many  men  in  disputing  over  the  divinity  of  Christ, 
seem  to  forget  the  divinity  of  his  precepts. 

I).  B.  Adams. 

Some  men  deny  the  divinity  of  Christ,  and  yet 
admit  the  divinity  of  his  precepts. 

No  man  when  cool,  can  promise  what  he  will  do 
when  he  shall  become  inflamed.  No  man  inflamed 
can  speak  for  his  actions  when  time  shall  bring  re- 
flection.—  Wm.  S.  Seward. 

The  nakedness  of  the  poor  might  be  well  clothed 
from  the  mere  trimmings  of  the  vain. 

Mrs.  R.  MorreU. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  277 


Few  people  thank  you  for  praising  the  qualities 
they  really  possess.  To  win  their  hearts  you  must 
praise  those  qualities  in  which  they  are  really  defi- 
cient.— U.  Ann  Jones. 

Think  kindly,  speak  kindly,  act  kindly,  forget 
sdf ;  thus  you  will  -cast  no  dark  shadows  along  the 
pathway  of  life. — Mrs.  Hariet  N.  Cutter. 

There  is  many  a  person  who  tries  to  be  religious, 
but  never  tries  to  be  noble-minded,  tolerant,  polite, 
agreeable,  and  always  clean  from  head  to  foot. 

6r.  Herhe7't. 

It  requires  a  liberal  share  of  God's  extraordinary 
grace  to  make  a  decent  stepmother  of  many  a  woman 
who  would,  Avithout  any  grace  at  all,  make  a  very 
respectable  mother. — One  wlxo  Knows. 

If  we  do  not  aspire  to  admiration,  we  shall  fall 
into  contempt. 

A  skillful  or  fashionable  cook  is  more  to  be  feared 
in  time  of  health,  than  an  ignorant  physician  in  time 
of  sickness. 

All  my  experience  and  inquiry  into  things  have 
brought  me  to  the  following  conclusion,  namely — 
"  Seriousness  is  the  greatest  wisdom,  temperance 
the  best  physic,  and  a  good  conscience  the  best 
estate." — Sir  John  Mason. 

Where  there  is  no  consciousness  that  matters  are 
ill,  there  is  consequently  no  desire  to  amend  them. 


278  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


A  government  of  priests  must,  of  necessity,  form 
a  nation  of  libertines. 

No  man  ever  made  an  ill  figure  ,who  understood 
his  own  talents,  nor  a  good  one,  who  mistook  them. 

Dean  Swift. 

Men  are  held  to  assent  to  what  they  might  have 
avoided. — Mrs.Fredonia  Pitts. 

Men,  like  books,  begin  and  end  with  a  blank  leaf: 
or  differently,  "  once  a  man  and  twice  a  child." 

Thousands  of  men  and  women  never  find  a  motive 
for  their  actions  and  efforts  in  life,  bigger  than  a 
dime. — Mrs.  Hariet  Newell  Cutter. 

The  world  was  once  in  its  infancy,  then  know- 
ledge was  in  its  infancy  ;  both  the  world  and  know- 
ledge are  now  in  youth,  and  growing  up  to  full 
manhood.  Will  the  time  come  when  they  will  be  in 
their  dotage  ? 

Men  complain  much  of  being  short  of  money,  and 
it  is  not  uncommon  for  them  to  have  more  money 
than  discretion. — R.  B.  Cutter. 

The  tower  of  Babel  is  not  the  only  monument  of 
human  pride,  which  has  failed  from  human  ignorance. 

Colton. 

Napoleon  was  a  talented  man,  and  to  deny  him 
this  would  be  a  gross  libel  on  mankind ;  it  would  be 
no  less  than  an  admission  that  all  Europe  had  for 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  279 


fourteen  years  been  whipt  in  the  field,  and  outwitted 
in  the  cabinet,  bv  a  blockhead.  When  we  have 
allowed  him  talent,  we  have  allowed  him  all  that  he 
deserves.  To  every  thing  connected  with  freedom, 
he  was  the  most  systematic  and  deliberate  foe  who 
ever  existed. — C.  C.  Colton. 

Shallow  society  bestows  its  honor  in  proportion  to 
the  obstrusiveness  of  the  demand  ;  and  in  pursuit  of 
some  pretentious  nothing,  overlooks  the  real  ele- 
ments by  which  its  character  and  destiny  are  deter- 
mined.— Lacon. 

The  good,  will  infallibly  become  better,  and  the 
bad,  will  as  certainly  become  worse  ;  for  vice,  virtue, 
and  time,  are  three  things  that  never  stand  still. 

Wm.  T.  Jones, 

Knowledge  and  good  parts,  managed  by  Divine 
grace,  are  like  the  rods  in  Moses's  hand,  wonder- 
workers ;  but  turn  serpents  when  cast  upon  the 
ground,  and  employed  in  promoting  earthly  designs. 

Arrou'smith. 

The  most  miserable  pettifogging  in  the  world  is 
that  of  a  man  in  the  court  of  his  own  conscience. 

Senry  Ward  BeecTier, 

Discourses  on  morality,  and  reflection  on  human 
nature,  are  the  best  means  we  can  use  to  improve 
our  minds,  gain  a  true  knowledge  of  ourselves,  and 
recover  our  souls  out  of  the  vice,  ignorance,  and 
prejudice  which  naturally  cleave  to  them. — Addison. 


280  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


God  is  so  good  that  he  would  never  suffer  evil,  if 
he  were  not  so  omnipotent  as  to  bring  good  out  of 
evil. — Arrowsmith. 

Great  powers  and  natural  gifts  do  not  bring  privi- 
'  leges  to    their   possessor,  so   much  as   they  bring 
duties. — M.  Ward  Beeeher. 

What  are  the  aims  which  are  at  the  same  time 
duties  in  life  ?  The  perfecting  ourselves,  and  the 
happiness  of  others. — JeatiPaul. 

The  following  sentence  contains  the  whole  alpha- 
bet :  John  P.  Brady  gave  me  a  black  walnut  box  of 
quite  a  small  size. 

'Tis  strange  the  miser  should  his  cares  employ, 
To  gain  those  riches  he  can  ne'er  enjoy; 
Is  it  less  strange  the  prodigal  should  waste 
His  wealth  to  purchase  what  he  ne'er  can  taste. 

Pojpe. 

Humbugging,  like  all  other  cheating,  may  some- 
times show  a  temporary  gain  over  honesty ;  but  it  is 
only  temporary,  and  in  the  long  run,  fair  dealing  in- 
sures success. 

Action  is  the  great  law — slow,  steady,  long  con- 
tined  action  is  the  grand  appointment,  by  which  all 
healthful,  perfect  works  are  accomplished. 

Labor  and  live. 

It  is  better  that  a  man's  own  works,  than  that 
another's  words  should  praisehim. — Sir  L^  Estrange. 


BOOK  OF  THOUGirr.  281 


It  is  one  of  the  worst  of  errors,  to  suppose  there 
is  any  other  path  of  safety  except  that  of  duty 

Nevins. 

If  a  man  does  not  make  new  acquaintances  as  he 
passes  through  life,  he  will  soon  find  himself  alone. 
A  man  should  keep  his  friendships  in  constant 
repair. — Johnson. 

In  proportion  as  nations  hecome  more  corrupt, 
more  disgrace  will  attach  to  poverty,  and  more  re- 
spect to  wealth. — Colton. 

It  is  a  true  sign  of  poverty  of  mind,  when  men  are 
ever  aiming  to  appear  great ;  for  the  really  great 
never  seem  to  know  it. — Cecil. 

Earnestness  and  perseverance  united  with  in- 
telligence, constitute  a  prime  element  of  greatness, 
and  have  given  rise  to  achievem.ents  which  have 
astonished  the  world. 

One  grand  reason  why  the  world  is  not  reformed 
is,  that  every  man  would  have  others  make  a  begin- 
ning.— Adam. 

Fine  sense  and  exalted  sense  are  not  half  so  useful 
as  common  sense. — Pope. 

When  a  great  change  or  reformation  is  to  be  made 

in  human  institutions,  the  minds  of  men  will  be  fitted 

to  it ;  the  general  opinions  and  feelings  will  draw 

that  way.     Every  fear  and  hope,  and  even  opposition 

will  forward  it ;  and  then  they  who  persist  in  oppo- 
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282  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


sing  this  mighty  current  in  human  affairs,  will  appear 
rather  to  resist  the  decrees  of  providence  itself,  than 
the  mere  designs  of  men.  In  their  opposition  they 
■will  not  he  resolute  and  firm,  but  perverse  and 
obstinate. — Burke. 

A  man  should  never  be  ashamed  to  own  that  he 
has  been  in  the  wrong,  which  is  but  saying  in  other 
words,  that  he  is  wiser  than  he  was. — Ibid. 

He  who  refuses  justice  to  the  defenceless,  will 
make  every  concession  to  the  powerful. — Lucan. 

How  guilt  once  harbored  in  the  human  breast, 
Intimidates  the  brave   degrades  the  great. 

Johnson. 
As  valuable  as  the  sciences  are,  good  sense,  tliough 

not  numbered  with  them,  nor  always  found  in  their 

company,  is  worth  them  all. 

Our  knowledge  being  so  fragmentary  in  its  nature, 
should  teach  us  to  discard  no  reform  proposition 
without  testing  its  truth,  and  to  look  upon  all  new 
ideas  with  a  certain  degree  of  complaisance,  and 
never  allow  the  lip  to  curl  in  incredulity  e'er  the  ear 
has  half  done  its  duty. —  T.  H.  Davis,  31.  D. 

There  is  no  difference  between  knowledge  and 
temperance  ;  for  he  who  knows  good  and  embraces 
it,  and  who  knows  evil  and  avoids  it,  is  both  learned 
and  temperate.  But  they  who  know  very  well  what 
ought  to  be  done,  and  yet  do  quite  otherwise,  are 
ignorant  and  stupid. — Socrates. 


BOOK   OF  THOUGHT.  283 


Fortitude  and  Insensibility. — Nothing  can  be 
more  different  than  fortitude  and  insensibility,  the 
one  being  a  noble  principle,  the  other  a  mere  nega- 
tion ;  and  yet  they  are  often  confounded. 

R.  B.  Cutter. 

He  who  hath  pity  on  another's  sorrow,  shall  be 
free  from  it  himself;  and  he  who  delighteth  in,  and 
scorneth  the  misery  of  another,  shall  one  time  or 
another  fall  into  it  himself. — Sir  W.  Raleigh. 

Industryj  frugality,  and  economy,  are  the  hand- 
maids of  wealth,  and  the  sure  sources  of  relief  from 
embarrassments. — R.  B.  Cutter 

What  subsists  to-day  by  violence,  continues  to- 
morrow by  acquiescence,  and  is  perpetuated  by  tra- 
dition ;  till  at  last  the  hoary  abuse  shakes  the  gray 
hairs  of  antiquity  at  us,  and  gives  itself  out  as  the 
wisdom  of  ages.  Thus  the  clearest  dictates  of  rea- 
son are  made  to  yield  to  a  long  succession  of  follies. 

Edward  Everett. 

Sects  and  Christians  that  desire  to  bo  known  by 
the  undue  prominence  of  some  single  feature  of 
Christianity,  are  necessarily  imperfect  just  in  pro- 
tion  to  the  distinctness  of  their  peculiarities. 

H.  Ward  Beecher. 

Nothing  more  impaiis  authority  than  a  too  fre- 
quent or  indiscreet  use  of  it.  If  thunder  itself  were 
to  be  continual,  it  would  excite  no  more  terror  than 
the  noise  of  a  mill. —  World's  Laconics. 


284  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


A  firm  faith  is  the  best  divinity ;  a  good  life  the 
best  philosophy;  a  clear  conscience  the  best  law; 
honesty  the  best  policy ;  and  temperance  the  best 
physic. — Berkeley. 

The  superflous  blossoms  on  a  fruit  tree  are  meant 
to  symbolize  the  large  way  in  which  God  loves  to  do 
pleasant  things. — H.  Ward  Beeeher. 

The  man  who  neglects  his  own  business,  can  not 
be  trusted  with  the  public's. — 3Irs.  R.  Morrell. 

Who  can  all  sense  of  other's  ills  escape, 
Is  but  a  brute,  at  best,  in  human  shape. 

Juvenal. 

A  nation's  character  is  the  sum  of  its  splendid 
deeds ;  they  constitute  one  common  patrimony,  the 
nation's  inheritance.  They  awe  foreign  powers — 
they  arouse  and  animate  our  own  people. — H.  Clay. 

No  liberal  man  would  impute  a  charge  of  unsteadi- 
ness to  another  for  having  changed  his  opinion. 

Cicero. 

A  desire  to  resist  oppression  is  implanted  in  the 
nature  of  man. —  Tacitus 

The  smallest  worm  will  turn,  being  trodden  on ; 
And  doves  will  peck,  in  safeguard  of  their  brood. 

Shakspeare. 

The  Chinese  have  a  saying  that  "  an  unlucky  word 
dropped  from  the  tongue,  can  not  be  brought  back 
bv  a  coach  and  six  horses." 


BOOK  OP   THOUGHT.  285 


A  week  filled  up  with  selfishness,  and  the  Sabbath 
stuffed  full  of  religious  exercises,  will  make  a  good 
Pharisee,  but  a  poor  Christian. — H.  Ward  Beecher. 

The  sons  of  science  mount  to  their  meridian 
splendor,  unobserved  by  the  millions  beneath,  who 
look  through  the  misty  medium  of  prejudice,  of  ig- 
norance, and  of  pride. — Lacon. 

It  would  be  most  lamentable  if  the  good  things 
of  this  world  were  rendered  either  more  valuable  or 
more  lasting ;  for  despicable  as  they  are  already,  too 
many  are  found  eager  to  purchase  them  even  at  the 
price  of  their  souls  ! — Colton. 

Fools  !  not  to  know  how  far  a  humble  lot 
Exceeds  abundance  by  injustice  got ; 
How  health  and  temperance  bless  the  rustic  swain, 
While  luxury  destroys  her  pamper'd  train. — Hesoid. 

He  who  would  undermine  the  foundations  of  our 
hope  for  eternity,  seeks  to  beat  down  the  column 
which  supports  the  feebleness  of  humanity. — Lacon. 

There  are  many  who  say  '*  there  is  not  an  honest 
man  in  the  world."  We  conclude  that  these  men 
must  judge  the  world  either  by  a  complete  knowl- 
edge of  all  the  world,  or  simply  by  a  knowledge  of 
themselves.  But  as  it  is  impossible  for  one  man  to 
know  all  the  world,  and  quite  possible  that  he  may, 
in  this  respect,  know  himself,  therefore  it  follows 
that  he  judges  the  world  by  himself.  It  is  surely 
unfair  to  judge  the  world  by  so  small  a  part  of  it. 


286  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


It  18  the  greatest  madness  to  be  a  hypocrite  in 
religion.  The  world  will  hate  thee  because  a  Chris- 
tian, even  in  appearance;  and  God  will  hate  thee 
because  so  only  in  appearance  ;  and  thus  having  the 
hatred  of  both,  thou  shalt  have  no  comfort  in  either. 

Bishop  Hall. 

The  affection  of  those  advanced  in  years,  for  the 
children  of  their  own  offspring,  is  usually  marked 
by  an  intensity  of  love,  even  beyond  that  of  the 
nearer  parents.  The  aged  have  more  ideas  in  com- 
mon with  the  young  than  the  gay,  and  busy,  and 
ambitious  can  conceive.  To  the  holy-minded  man, 
who  wears  his  gray  locks  reverently,  the  world  is 
presented  in  its  true  colors ;  he  knows  its  wisdom  to 
be  tolly,  and  its  splendor  vanity;  he  finds  a  sympa- 
thy in  the  artlessness  of  childhood,  and  its  ignorance 
of  evil  is  to  him  more  pleasing  than  man^s  imperfect 
knowledge,  and  more  imperfect  practice  of  good. 

Chambers. 

He  who  has  fully  resolved  upon  any  great  end,  by 
that  very  resolution  has  scaled  the  chief  barrier  to  it. 

T.  Edwarda. 

"  All  history  attests  that  fondness  of  dress  and 
finery  is  the  greatest  depraver  of  woman.  A  hun- 
dred women  stumble  over  this  block  of  vanity  where 
one  falls  by  any  other  cause ;  and  if  the  insane 
mania  for  dress  and  show  does  not  end  in  a  general 
decay  of  female  morals,  then  the  lesson  of  history 
and  the  experience  of  all  ages  must  go  for  naught." 


BOOK  OF  THOUGTTP.  287 


"  There  is  no  action  of  man  in  this  life,"  says 
Thomas  of  Malmsbury,  "which  is  not  the  beginning 
of  so  long  a  chain  of  consequences,  as  that  no  human 
providence  is  high  enough  to  give  us  a  prospect  to 
the  end." 

He  who  writes  a  book  for  the  living  million,  should 
be  dead  to  all  their  smiles  and  frowns,  in  order  to 
make  it  worthy  of  being  transmitted  to  future 
generations. 

The  greatest  man  is  he  who  chooses  the  right  with 
invincible  resolution  ;  who  resists  the  sorest  tempta- 
tions from  within  and  without ;  who  bears  the  heavi- 
est burdens  cheerfully ;  who  is  calmest  in  storms, 
and  most  fearless  under  menace  and  frowns ;  and 
whose  reliance  on  truth,  on  virtue,  and  on  God,  is 
most  unfaltering. — Charming. 

Live  for  Something. — Thousands  of  men  breathe, 
move,  and  live — pass  off  the  stage  of  life,  and  are 
heard  of  no  more.  Why  ?  None  were  blessed  by 
them ;  none  could  point  to  them  as  the  means  of 
tiieir  redemption ;  not  a  line  they  wrote,  not  a  word 
they  spoke,  could  be  recalled,  and  so  they  perished ; 
their  light  went  out  in  darkness,  and  they  were  not 
remembered  more  than  insects  of  yesterday.  Will 
you  thus  live  and  die,  0  man  immortal !  Live  for 
something.  Do  good,  and  leave  behind  yoa  a  monu- 
ment of  virtue,  that  the  storms  of  time  can  never 
forget.  Write  your  name  in  kindness,  love,  and 
mercy,  on  the  hearts  of  those  you  come  in  contact 


288  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


■with,  and  you  will  never  be  forgotten.  Good  deeds 
■will  shine  as  brightly  on  the  earth  as  the  stars  of 
heaven. — Dr.  Chalmers. 

Baxter  says :  "  No  vassalage  is  so  ignoble,  no  ser- 
vitude so  miserable,  as  that  of  vice ;  mines  and  gal- 
leys, mills  and  dungeons,  are  words  of  ease  to  the 
service  of  sin ;  therefore  the  bringing  sinners  to 
repentance  is  so  noble,  so  tempting  a  design,  that  it 
drew  even  God  himself  from  heaven  to  prosecute  it." 
Vice  stings  us  even  in  our  greatest  pleasures,  but 
virtue  consoles  us  even  in  our  greatest  pains.  There 

IS  NOTHING  WORTHY  OF  BEING  TAUGHT  OR  LEARNED, 
BUT  HOW  TO  OBTAIN  THE  ROBE  OF  ChRIST's  RIGHTEOUS- 
NESS— "  THE  WEDDING  GARMENT." 


CHAPTER  OF   ANECDOTES. 


ANECDOTE  OF  REV.  WM.  JAY. 

Andrew  Fuller  and  William  Jay  were  one  day 
riding  together,  and  a  bird  flew  over  their  heads. 
Jay  said  to  Fuller, — "  What  kind  of  a  bird  was 
that."  Fuller  answered,  "  I  think  it  was  a  jay." 
"No,"  says  Jay, — "it  was  fuller  in  the  eye,  fuller 
in  the  head,  fuller  in  the  breast,  and  fuller  all  over. 
I  think  it  must  have  been  an  owl !" 

SETTLING  ACCOUNTS. 

A  minister,  on  being  told  by  a  scoflBng  infidel,  that 
he  "  spent  his  Sundays  in  settling  accounts,"  imme- 
diately replied,  "  You  will  find,  sir,  that  the  day  of 
judgment  will  be  spent  in  exactly  the  same  way." 

WHAT  WILL  BECOME  OF  YOU  ? 

"  What  will  become  of  you,"  said  an  infidel  to  a 
Christian,  "if  there  is  no  future  state?"  "And 
what,"  replied  he,  "  will  be  your  case  if  there  is?" 

CHALLENGE  TO  FIGHT. 

Col.  Gardner  having  received  a  challenge  to  fight 

a  duel,  made  the  following  truly  noble  and  Christian 

reply :  "  I  fear  sinning^  though  you  know,  sir,  I  do 

not  fear  fighting." 

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290  BOOK   OF    THOUGHT. 


HE  KNOWS  WHEN  I  SWEAR  AT  HIM. 

A  profane  coachman  pointing  to  one  of  his  horses, 
said  to  a  pious  traveler :  "  That  horse,  sir,  knows 
■when  I  swear  at  him."."  "  Yes,"  replied  the  trav- 
eler, "and  so  does  One  above." 

WHO  FILL  HEAVEN  AND    HELL. 

Antonio  Guevazaused  to  say,  "that heaven  would 
be  filled  with  such  as  had  done  good  works,  and 
hell  with  such  as  intended  to  do  them." 

THE  SCOFFER. 

A  man  traveling  in  a  stage-coach,  attempted  to 
divert  the  company  by  ridiculing  the  scriptures. 
"  As  to  the  prophecies,"  said  he,  "in  particular,  they 
were  all  written  long  after  the  events  had  transpired." 
A  minister,  present,  replied,  "  sir,  I  beg  leave  to 
mention  one  particular  prophecy  as  an  exception  : 
*  Knowing  this  first,  that  there  shall  come  in  the  last 
days  scoffers.'  Now,  sir,  whether  the  event  be  not 
long  after  the  prediction,  I  leave  the  company  to 
judge." 

THE  WAY  TO  HEAVEN  PAVED  WITH  GOOD  INTENTIONS. 

A  Methodist  minister  once  asked  a  member  of  his 
charge,  in  general  class,  how  he  was  prospering  in 
the  divine  life ;  who  said  that  he  had  been  very 
remiss  in  his  duties,  but  that  he  intended  to  live 
much  nearer  to  God,  in  future.  "  My  dear  brother," 
said  the  minister,  "  it  will  be  well  if  you  should,  bat 
remember  this,  the  way  to  hell  is  paved  with  good 
intentio7isJ" 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  291 


AN  OPPORTUNK  REBUKE. 

A  pious  minister  of  the  gospel  occasionally  visiting 
a  gay  lady,  was  one  day  introduced  into  a  room  near 
to  that  in  which  she  dressed.  After  waiting  some 
hours,  the  lady  came  in  and  found  him  in  tears. 
She  inquired  the  reason  of  his  weeping;  he  replied, 
"  madam,  I  weep  because  you  spend  so  many  hours 
before  your  glass,  and  in  adorning  your  poor  perish- 
ing body,  while  I  spend  so  few  hours  before  my  God, 
and  in  adorning  my  precious,  immortal  soul."  The 
rebuke  struck  her  conscience, — she  lived  and  died  a 
monument  of  God's  grace. — Rev.  John  Allen. 

WORK  NOT,  EAT  XOT. 

This  we  commanded  you,  that  if  any  would  not 
work,  neither  should  he  eat. — 2  Thess.  3 :  10. 

Pisistratus,  the  Grecian  general,  walking  through 
some  of  his  fields,  several  poor  persons  implored  his 
charity.  "  If  you  want  beasts  to  plow  your  land," 
said  he,  "  I  will  lend  you  some  ;  if  you  want  land,  I 
•will  give  you  some ;  if  you  want  seed  to  sow  your 
land,  I  will  give  you  some  ;  but  I  will  encourage 
none  in  idleness."  By  this  course,  in  a  short  time, 
there  was  not  a  beggar  in  his  dominions. 

Daily  Monitor. 

AND  IT  WAS  ms  OWN  DAUGHTER. 

Dr.  Lyman  Beecher,  at  a  temperance  meeting,  re- 
lated the  following  anecdote :  "  A  gentleman  walk- 
ing the  streets  of  London,  saw  a  frightened  horse, 
with  a  cab  running  down  the  street  with  tremendous 


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fury,  and  a  little  girl  in  the  middle  of  the  street,  who 
might  in  an  instant  be  killed.  Forgetting  his  own 
safety,  he  instantly  rushed  to  the  child's  rescue, 
snatched  her  in  his  arms,  and  bore  her  to  the  side 
walk,  when  the  thought  struck  him,  how  would  the 
parents  of  this  child  have  felt,  had  she  been  killed. 
As  he  sat  her  down,  he  looked  her  in  the  face,  and 
it  was  his  own  daughter.  '  Little  do  parents,'  said 
he,  'know  when  they  are  rescuing  children  from  the 
drunkard's  path,  how  often  the  one  saved,  proves  to 
be  one  of  their  own  children." 

SHORT  CREED. 

A  sceptical  young  man  one  day  conversing  with 
the  celebrated  Dr.  Parr,  observed,  that  he  would 
believe  nothing  which  he  could  not  understand. 
"  Then,  young  man,  your  creed  will  be  the  shortest 
of  any  man's  I  know." 

PRODIGAL  SON. 

A  young  wife  remonstrated  with  her  husband,  a 
dissipated  spendthrift,  on  his  conduct.  "  My  love," 
said  he,  "  I  am  only  like  the  prodigal  son ;  I  shall 
reform  by-and-by."  "  And  I  will  be  like  the  prodi- 
gal son,  too,"  she  replied,  "  for  I  will  arise  and  go 
to  my  father." 

RUM  COLOR. 

A  religious  society  once  met  in  the  state  of  Con- 
necticut to  decide  what  color  they  should  paint  their 
meeting  house.     Some  proposed  one  color  and  some 


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another.  At  last  said  one,  "I  move  we  paint  it  rum 
color ;  for  Deacon  Smith  has  had  his  face  painted 
that  color  a  number  of  years,  and  it  grows  brighter 
and  brighter  every  year !" 

REMEDY  FOR  SORE  EYES. 

A  landlord  who  gave  to  every  customer  an  ex- 
ample of  his  moderate  drinking,  complained  of  the 
badness  of  his  eyes,  and  asked  a  quaker  what  he 
should  do  for  them,  removing  his  goggles  and  sub- 
mitting his  swollen,  inflamed  eyes  to  the  examination 
of  his  customer.  "  My  advice,  friend,"  replied  the 
Quaker,  "is  that  thou  should'st  put  thy  brandy  on 
thy  eyes,  and  tie  thy  goggles  over  thy  mouth!" 

THAT  MATTER  IS  SETTLED. 

The  Rev.  John  Chambers,  of  Philadelphia,  in  a 
speech  before  the  American  Union,  said: 

"  A  dealer  in  liquor  was  tried  for  some  crime,  con- 
victed, and  sentenced  by  Judge  Parsons.  The  next 
day  a  lawyer  waited  upon  the  judge,  and  told  him 
he  could  show  him  a  defect  in  the  proceedings  where- 
fore the  man  should  be  released.  "0,"  said  the 
judge,  "  that  matter  is  settled."  "  But,"  said  the 
lawyer,  "he  is  a  worthy  man."  "A  Avorthy  man  !'* 
said  the  judge,  "  and  make  drunkards  ?"  "  But," 
said  the  lawyer,  "  he  is  a  good  citizen."  "  A  good 
citizen,"  said  the  judge,  "and  fill  up  our  jails  and 
alms-houses,  and  cause  our  men  to  commit  murder, 
and  arson,  and  every  iniquity?  That  question's  set- 
tled and  he  must  abide  by  the  law." 


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The  name  of  that  judge  was  Parsons,  and  may 
God  send  us  many  more  such  parsons ! 

PLUCK  THE  E08E8  AND  EAT  THE  FRUIT. 

Dr.  Hewitt  once  related  the  following  anecdote  in 
a  temperance  lecture  : 

He  said  that  a  blacksmith  in  one  of  the  villages 
which  he  had  visited,  had  in  his  possession,  but  under 
mortgage,  a  house,  and  lot  of  land,  and,  like  too 
many  others,  he  was  fond  of  the  social  glass.  But, 
in  about  three  months  after  he  had  joined  the  tem- 
perance society,  he  observed  one  morning  his  wife 
busily  employed  setting  out  rose  bushes  and  fruit 
trees.  "  My  dear,"  said  he,  "  I  have  owned  this  lot 
for  five  years,  and  yet  I  have  never  known  you  before 
to  manifest  any  desiie  to  improve  and  ornament  it 
in  this  manner."  "Indeed,"  was  her  reply,  "I  had 
no  heart  to  do  it,  until  you  joined  the  temperance 
society.  I  had  often  thought  of  it  before,  but  I  was 
persuaded  that  should  I  do  it,  some  stranger  would 
pluck  the  roses  and  eat  the  fruit.  Now,  I  know  that, 
with  the  blessing  of  God,  this  lot  will  be  ours ;  and 
that  we  and  our  children  shall  enjoy  its  products. 
We  shall  pluck  the  roses  and  eat  the  fruit." 

SNUFF  NOT  INJDBIOUS  TO  THE  BRAIN. 

A  lady  asked  her  physician  whether  snuff  was  in- 
jurious to  the  brain  or  not.  "No,"  said  he,  "  for  no 
body  who  has  any  brains  ever  takes  snuff." 


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WILL    SWEAR    WILL    STEAL. 

As  Howard  was  standing  one  day  opposite  a  pub- 
lic house,  he  heard  a  dreadful  volley  of  oaths  and 
curses  in  that  direction,  and  buttoning  his  pocket  up 
before  he  went  on  the  street,  he  said  to  some  work- 
men near  by,  "  I  always  do  this  when  I  hear  men 
swear  profanely,  as  I  think  that  any  one  who  can 
thus  take  God's  name  in  vain  can  also  steal,  or  do 
any  thing  else  that  is  wicked." 

Clarke's  question  to  workjien. 
Mr.  A.  Clarke,  of  Edinburgh,  was  accustomed, 
previous  to  engaging  a  workman,  to  put  this  ques- 
tion directly  to  him,  "Are  you  a  swearer  in  common 
conversation?  for  if  you  are,  you  shall  not  work 
with  me.  I  am  determined  to  permit  none  in  my 
shop  to  take  the  name  of  God  in  vain,  before  whose 
presence  angels  bow  down  and  adore." 

MINISTERS    MUST    LIVE. 

A  minister  being  earnestly  exhorted  to  take  a 
decided  stand  on  the  subject  of  slavery,  excused  him- 
self by  saying,  "  You  know  ministers  must  live  !  '* 
"  No,"  said  his  fi-iend,  "  I  was  not  aware  of  that ;  I 
thought  they  might  die  for  the  truth's  sake ! " 

ZACHARLAH   FOX. 

When  old  Zachariah  Fox,  the  great  merchant  of 
Liverpool,  was  asked  by  what  means  he  contrived 
to  realize  so  large  a  fortune  as  he  possessed,  his 
reply  was,  "  Friend,  by  one  article  alone,  in  which 
thou  mayest  deal  too  if  thou  pleasest — civility." 


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EARLY  IMPRESSIONS  NEVER  EFFACED. 

A  respectable  lady  died  in  1845,  near  Madison, 
Wisconsin.  She  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and 
educated  a  Protestant.  All  her  family  were  Protes- 
tants. For  seven  years  previous  to  her  death  she 
had  no  intercourse  with  Roman  Catholics.  But 
when  death  was  approaching  she  sent  a  hundred 
miles  for  a  Catholic  Bishop,  that  she  might  be  re- 
ceived into  communion,  and  die  in  the  Romish 
church.  And  wherefore?  Her  feelings  were  the 
result  of  early  impressions  received  while  attending 
a  Catholic  school  at  Nazanath,  Kentucky !  Yet  how 
little  many  parents  think  of  the  depth  and  perman- 
ency of  the  impressions  made  on  their  infant  off- 
spring by  the  school-teacher's  instructions  or  their 
own !  Of  all  impressions  those  are  most  enduring 
which  are  the  earliest. 

beecher's  first  oath. 
I  remember  the  time  when  I  swore  the  first  oath. 
It  seemed  as  though  every  leaf  on  the  trees  and 
every  blade  of  grass  were  vocal  in  their  condemna- 
tion of  my  sin.  But  in  after  days,  under  the  demor- 
alizing influence  of  profane  company,  I  became  able 
to  use  profane  language  without  a  blush — without 
the  least  remorse  of  conscience ;  and  finally  without 
being  conscious  of  the  language  I  employed. 

n.  Ward  Beecher. 
cobbett's  duel. 
Cobbett,  receiving  a  challenge  to  fight  a  duel,  re- 
commended the  challenger  to  draw  a  Cobbett  in  chalk, 


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and  if  he  succeeded  in  hitting  it,  to  send  him  in- 
stant word,  in  order  that  he  might  have  an  oppor- 
tunity of  acknowledging  that,  had  the  true  Cobbett 
been  there,  he,  in  all  probability,  would  have  been 
hit,  too.  But  hit  or  no  hit,  the  bullets  could  have 
no  efiFect  whatever,  he  maintained,  on  the  original 
causes  of  the  quarrel. 

ATTENTION    TO    LIVES. 

I  pay  more  attention  to  people's  lives  than  their 
deaths.  In  all  the  visits  I  have  paid  to  the  sick 
during  the  course  of  a  long  ministry,  I  never  met 
with  one  who  was  not  previously  serious,  that  ever 
recovered  from  what  he  supposed  the  brink  of  death, 
who  afterward  performed  his  vows,  and  became  reli- 
gious, notwithstanding  the  very  great  appearance 
there  was  in  their  favor  when  they  despaired  of 
recovery. — Booth. 

QUAKER   REPLY, 

A  gay  young  man,  traveling  in  a  stage  coach  in 
London,  forced  his  deistical  sentiments  upon  the 
company  by  attempting  to  ridicule  the  Scriptures  ; 
and  among  other  topics,  made  himself  merry  with 
the  story  of  David  and  Goliath,  strongly  urging  the 
impossibility  of  a  youth  like  that  of  David  being 
able  to  throw  a  stone  with  sufficient  force  to  sink 
into  the  giant's  forehead. 

"  Indeed,  friend,"  replied  a  Quaker  present,  "  I 
do  not  think  it  at  all  improbable,  if  the  Philistine's 
head  was  as  soft  as  thine."  This  silenced  the  young 
man. 


298  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


NO  FREEDOM  WITH  THE  NAME  OF  MY  MASTER. 

A  good  old  man  was  once  thrown  into  the  com- 
pany of  a  young  man  who  occasionally  introduced 
into  conversation  the  words  "  devil,  deuce,  old 
nick,"  etc.,  and  who,  at  last,  took  the  name  of  God 
in  vain.  "  Stop,"  said  the  old  man,  "I  said  nothing 
while  you  used  freedoms  with  the  name  of  your  own 
master,  but  I  insist  upon  it  that  yon  shall  use  no 
freedom  with  the  name  of  my  master." 

AVARICIOUS    RECTOR. 

An  indigent  boy  applied  for  alms  at  the  house  of 
an  avaricious  rector,  and  received  a  dry,  mouldy 
crust.  The  rector  inquired  of  the  boy  if  he  could 
say  the  Lord's  prayer,  and  was  answered  in  the 
negative.  "Then,"  said  the  rector,  "I  will  teach 
you  that."  "  Our  Father."  "  Our  Father,"said  the 
boy,  "  is  he  my  Father  as  well  as  yours  ?  "  "  Yes, 
certainly."  "Then,"  replied  the  boy,  '^ how  could 
you  give  your  poor  brother  this  mouldy  crust  of 
bread?" 

ROARING    OF    THE    BRITISH    LION. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  American  revolution, 
■when  one  of  the  king's  thundering  proclamations 
made  its  appearance,  the  subject  came  up  in  com- 
pany in  Philadelphia ;  a  member  of  Congress  who 
was  present,  turning  to  Miss  Livingstone,  said, — 
"Well,  Miss,  are  you  greatly  terrified  at  the  roaring 
of  the  British  lion  ?  "  "Not  at  all,  sir;  for  I  have 
learned  from  Natural  History,  that  that  heast  roars 
loudest  when  he  is  most  frightened.'^ 


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ACCUSED    AND    ACQUITTED. 

A  person  looking  over  a  catalogue  of  professional 
gentlemen  of  the  bar,  with  his  pencil  wrote  opposite 
the  name  of  one  who  is  of  the  bustling  order — '■^Has 
been  accused  of  possessing  talents.'^  Another  seeing 
the  accusation,  immediately  wrote  under  it — "  Mas 
been  tried  and  acquitted.^' 

UNPROFESSIONAL. 

A  lawyer  once  said  to  a  learned  brother  in  court, 
that  he  thought  his  whiskers  were  very  unprofes- 
sional. "  You  are  right,"  replied  his  friend,  "  a 
lawyer  can  not  be  too  barefaced." 

DIED    OF    A    COMPLICATION. 

"What  did  Mr. die  of?"  asked  a  simple 

neighbor."  "Of  a  complication  of  disorders,"  re- 
plied his  friend.  "  How  would  you  describe  this 
complication,  my  dear  sir  ?  "  "  He  died,"  answered 
the  other, "  of  two  physicians,  an  apothecary,  and  a 
surgeon  !  "     Enough  to  kill  any  man,  truly. 

PUT   IT    WHERE    YOUR    OTHER    IRONS    ARE. 

A  lady  desired  Dr.  Johnson  to  pass  his  opinion  of 
a  new  work  she  had  just  written ;  adding  that,  if  it 
would  not  do,  she  begged  him  to  tell  her  plainly, 
for  she  had  other  irons  in  the  fire,  and  in  case  of 
unsuccess,  she  could  bring  out  something  else. 
"  Then,"  said  the  Doctor,  after  having  turned  over 
a  few  of  the  leaves,  "  I  advise  you,  madam,  to  put 
it  where  your  other  irons  are." 


SOO  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


QUIN   AND    THE    C0XC05IB. 

Quill  one  day  complaining  of  his  old  age  and  in- 
firmities, in  the  public  rooms  at  Bath,  a  pert  young 
coxcomb  asked  him,  "What  would  you  give  to  be  as 
young  as  I  am?"  "I  do  not  know,"  says  Quin, 
measuring  him  very  contemptuously,  "but  I  should 
be  almost  content  to  be  as  foolish." 

NO    BETTER    THAN    CLAY. 

When  Mr.  John  Lancaster  had  finished  his  lecture 
from  the  chair  of  the  House  of  Representatives  in 
the  United  States,  Mr.  Clay,  the  speaker,  compli- 
mented him,  saying,  that  the  chair  had  never  before 
been  filled  so  well.  Mr.  Lancaster  very  modestly 
replied,  that  man,  in  his  purest  aspect,  was  but  a 
very  humble  instrument  in  the  hands  of  a  higher 
power ;  the  chair  he  had  just  filled,  exalted  as  it 
was,  had  not  been  filled  with  any  better  than  Clay. 

OCT  OF  HIS  LORDSmp's   WAY. 

A  nobleman  seeing  a  large  stone  near  his  gate, 
ordered  his  servant,  with  an  oath,  to  send  it  to  hell. 
*'  If,"  said  the  servant,  "  I  were  to  throw  it  to  heaven, 
it  would  be  more  completely  out  of  your  lordship's 
way." 

THE  CLERGYMAN  AND  THE  JOCKEY. 

A  clergyman  who  was  in  the  habit  of  preaching  in 
difierent  parts  of  the  country,  was  once  at  an  inn, 
where  he  observed  a  horse-jockey,  trying  to  take  in 
a  simple  man,  by  imposing  upon   him  an  unsound 


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horse  for  a  sound  one.  The  parson  knowing  the  bad 
character  of  the  jockey,  thought  proper  to  take  the 
matt  aside  and  tell  him  to  be  cautious  of  the  person 
he  was  dealing  with.  The  man  finally  declined  the 
purchase,  and  the  jockey,  quite  nettled,  observed, 
"  Parson,  I  would  much  rather  hear  you  preach  than 
see  you  privately  interfere  with  bargains  between 
man  and  man  in  this  way."  "  Well,"  replied  the 
parson,  "  if  you  had  been  where  you  ought  to  have 
been  last  Sunday,  you  would  have  heard  me  preach." 
"Where  was  that?"  "In  the  state  prison,"  returned 
the  clergyman. 

PREACHING  ON  THE  TIMES. 

Tn  1648,  it  was  a  question  asked  of  the  brethren, 
at  the  meetings  of  ministers,  twice  a  year,  "  if  they 
preached  the  duties  of  the  times."  And  when  it 
was  found  that  Leighton  did  not,  he  was  reproved 
for  his  omission;  but  he  replied,  "If  all  the  brethren 
have  preached  on  the  times,  may  not  one  poor 
brother  be  suffered  to  preach  on  eternity" 

HAPPY  PASSAGE. 

A  conceited  minister  having  once  delivered  a  ser- 
mon in  the  hearing  of  Mr.  Hall,  pressed  him,  with  a 
disgusting  union  of  self-complacency  and  indelicacy, 
to  say  what  he  thought  of  the  sermon.  Mr.  Hall  re- 
mained silent  for  some  time,  hoping  that  his  silence 
would  be  rightly  interpreted ;  but  this  only  caused 
the  question  to  be  pressed  with  greater  earnestness. 
Mr.  Hall,  at  length  said :   "  There  was  one  very  fine 


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passage,  sir."  "I  am  rejoiced  to  hear  you  say  so. 
Pray,  sir,  which  was  it?"  "Why,  sir,  it  was  the 
passage  from  the  pulpit  into  the  vestry." 

WASmNGTON's  RESPECT  FOR  HIS  MOTHER. 

George  Washingtmi,  when  quite  young,  was  about 
to  go  to  sea  as  a  midshipman  ;  every  thing  was  ar- 
ranged, the  vessel  lay  opposite  his  father's  house,  the 
little  boat  had  come  ashore  to  take  him  off,  and  his 
whole  heart  was  bent  on  going.  After  his  trunk  had 
been  carried  down  to  the  boat,  he  went  to  bid  his 
mother  farewell,  and  saw  the  tears  bursting  from  her 
eyes.  However,  he  said  nothing  to  her ;  l)nt  he  saw 
that  his  mother  would  be  distressed  if  he  went,  and 
perhaps  never  be  happy  again.  He  just  turned 
around  to  the  servant  and  said  :  "Go  and  tell  them 
to  fetch  my  trunk  back.  I  will  not  go  away  to  break 
my  mother's  heart."  His  mother  was  struck  with 
his  decision,  and  she  said  to  him,  "  George,  God  has 
promised  to  bless  the  children  that  honor  their 
parents,  and  I  believe  he  will  bless  you." 

BOLINGBEOKE. 

Bolingbroke  left  one  of  his  publications  to  be  pub- 
lished after  his  death  by  Mallet,  a  brother  unbeliever. 
Dr.  Johnson,  when  asked  his  opinion  of  the  legacy, 
exclaimed :  "  A  scoundrel !  who  spent  his  life  in 
charging  a  pop-gun  against  Christianity;  and  a  cow- 
ard, who,  afraid  of  the  report  of  his  own  gun,  left 
half  a  crown  to  a  hungry  Scotchman  to  pull  the 
trigger  after  his  death." 


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CONTENTMENT. 

A  king  walking  out  one  morning,  met  a  lad  at 
the  stable  door,  and  asked  him :  "  Well,  boy,  what 
do  you  do  ?  what  do  they  pay  you  ?"  "  I  help  in 
the  stable,"  replied  the  lad,  "but  I  have  nothing  but 
victuals  and  clothes."  "Be  content,"  replied  the 
king,  "  I  have  no  more." 

GIVING  TO  SAVE. 

A  wealthy  merchant  having  lost  by  shipwreck,  fif- 
teen hundred  pounds,  ordered  his  clerk  to  distribute 
one  hundred  pounds  among  poor  ministers  and  peo- 
ple ;  adding,  that  if  his  fortune  was  going  by  fifteen 
hundred  pounds  at  a  lump,  it  was  time  to  make  sure 
of  some  part  of  it. 

THE  BENEVOLENT  DR.  WILSON. 

The  benevolent  Dr.  Wilson  once  discovered  a 
clergyman  at  Bath,  who,  he  was  informed,  was  sick, 
poor,  and  had  a  numerous  family.  In  the  evening 
he  gave  a  friend  fifty  pounds,  requesting  him  to 
deliver  it  in  the  most  delicate  manner,  and  as  from 
an  unknown  person.  The  friend  said:  "I  will 
wait  upon  him  early  in  the  morning."  "You  will 
oblige  me,  sir,  by  waiting  upon  him  directly.  Think 
of  what  importance  a  good  night's  rest  may  be  to 
that  poor  man." 

KK  TRIED  IT  BEFORE  HE  SAID  IT. 

A  lady  being  once  told  that  the  world  in  all  its 
glory  was  but  vanity,  replied :  "  True,  Solomon  said 
so ;  but  he  tried  it  before  he  said  it,  and  so  will  I." 


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hequires  two  fools  to  fight. 
Sapiens  being  challenged  for  a  duel,  cooly  replied, 
"  any  fool  may  give  a  challenge,  but  it  requires  two 
fools  to  fight." 

REMEMBERING  THE  NAME  OF  CHRIST. 

When  the  pious  Bishop  Beveridge  lay  on  his  death- 
bed, he  did  not  know  any  of  his  friends  or  connexions. 
A  minister  with  whom  he  had  been  well  acquainted, 
visited  him ;  and  when  conducted  into  his  room  he 
said:  "Bishop  Beveridge,  do  you  know  me?"  "Who 
are  you?"  said  the  Bishop.  Being  told  who  he  was, 
he  said  he  did  not  know  him.  Another  friend  came, 
who  had  been  equally  well  known,  and  accosted  him 
in  a  similar  manner.  "Do  you  know  me.  Bishop 
Beveridge  ?"  "  Who  are  you,"  said  he.  Being 
told  that  it  was  one  of  his  intimate  friends,  he  said 
he  did  not  know  him.  His  wife  then  came  to  his 
bedside  and  asked  him  if  he  knew  her.  "Who  are 
you  ?"  said  he.  Being  told  that  she  was  his  wife, 
he  said  he  did  not  know  Tier.  "Well,"  said  one, 
"Bishop  Beveridge,  do  you  know  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ?"  "Jesus  Christ,"  said  he,  reviving,  as  if 
the  name  had  upon  him  the  influence  of  a  charm, 
"  0 !  yes,  I  have  known  him  those  forty  years. 
Precious  Savior  !  He  is  my  only  hope." 

HOW  FAR  TO  A  TAVERN. 

One  of  the  best  stories  of  the  season  is  told  by 
Sandy  Welch,  of  a  man  who  was  in  the  country  on 
a  visit,  where  they  had  no  liquor.     He  got  up  two 


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hours  before  breakfast,  and  "wanted  his  bitters. 
None  to  be  had,  of  course  he  felt  bad.  "  How  far 
is  it  to  a  tavern  ?"  he  asked.  "  Four  miles.'*  So 
off  the  thirsty  soul  started, — walked  the  four  miles 
in  a  pleasant  state  of  mind,  annved  at  the  tavern, 
and  found  it  was  a  temperance  house ! 

MAY  PERISH  BY  THE  SWORD. 

It  is  reported  of  Philip  of  Macedon,  that  after 
having  obtained  the  honor  of  an  unexpected  victory 
in  arms,  he  was  observed  to  look  very  mucli  dejec- 
ted ;  on  being  asked  the  reason,  he  replied,  "  that 
the  honors  obtained  by  the  sword,  might  also  be  lost 
by  the  sword." 

They  who  rule  by  the  sword  are  liable,  at  all  times, 
to  perish  by  the  sword. 

napoleon's  opinion  of  chuist. 

"I  know  men,"  said  Napoleon  at  St.  Helena,  to 
Count  do  Montholon,  "  I  know  men,  and  1  tell  you 
that  Jesus  is  not  a  man  !  The  religion  of  Christ  is 
a  mystery,  which  subsists  by  its  own  force,  and  pro- 
ceeds from  a  mind  that  is  not  human.  We  find  in 
it  a  marked  individuality,  which  originated  a  train 
of  words  and  actions  unknown  before.  Jesus  is  not 
a  philosopher,  for  his  proofs  are  miracles,  and  from 
the  first  his  disciples  adored  him. 

"  Alexander,  Caesar,  Charlemagne,  and  myself 
founded  empires ;  but  on  what  foundations  did  we 
rest  the  creations  of  our  genius  ?  Upon  force. 
Jesus  Christ  founded  an  empire  upon  love ;  and  at 

this  hour  millions  of  men  would  die  for  him  ! 

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306  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


"  I  die  before  my  time,  and  my  body  will  be  given 
back  to  the  earth,  to  become  food  for  worms.  Such 
is  the  fate  of  him  who  has  been  called  the  great 
Napoleon.  What  an  abyss  between  my  deep  mys- 
tery and  the  eternal  kingdom  of  Christ,  which  is 
proclaimed,  loved,  and  adored,  and  is  extended  over 
the  whole  earth! " 

Turning  to  General  Bertrand,  the  emperor  added : 
"  If  you  do  not  perceive  that  Jesus  Christ  is  God,  I 
did  wrong  in  appointing  you  general !  " 

Wesley's  charity. 
Perhaps  there  never  was  a  more  charitable  man 
than  John  Wesley.  His  liberality  knew  no  bounds, 
but  an  empty  pocket.  He  gave  not  merely  a  cer- 
tain part  of  his  income,  but  all  that  he  had :  his 
own  wants  being  provided  for,  he  devoted  all  the 
rest  to  the  necessities  of  others.  He  entered  upon 
this  good  work  at  a  very  early  period.  We  are  told 
that  when  he  had  thirty  pounds  a  year,  he  lived  on 
twenty-eight,  and  gave  away  forty  shillings.  The 
next  year,  receiving  sixty  pounds,  he  still  lived  on 
twenty-eight,  and  gave  away  thirty-two.  The  third 
year  he  received  ninety  pounds,  and  gave  away  sixty- 
two.  The  fourth  year  he  received  one  hundred  and 
twenty  pounds.  Still  he  lived  on  twenty-eight,  and 
gave  tc  the  poor  ninety-two.  During  the  rest  of  his 
life  he  lived  economically ;  and,  in  the  course  of 
fifty  years,  it  has  been  supposed,  he  gave  away  more 
than  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  thousand  dollars. 
He  used  much  frugality  that  he  might  have  much  to 


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bestow.  Can  any  man  or  woman  be  a  Christian 
with  less  charity  than  Mr.  Wesley  had  ?  He  fol- 
lowed both  the  Saviour's  example  and  his  precepts ; 
and  when,  among  the  many  hollow-hearted,  wealthy 
professors  of  religion,  you  find  one  doing  as  did  this 
good  man,  you  will  have  the  pleasure  of  seeing  a 
Christiuu. 

DISTIIXER    AND    REFORMED    DRUNKARD. 

A  distiller  went  to  hear  a  reformed  drunkard 
deliver  a  temperance  lecture,  thinking  to  brow-beat 
him  by  his  presence.  The  reformed  man  eloquently 
compared  alcohol  to  Juggernaut,  saying  he  had  a 
temple  in  that  place,  pointing  to  the  distillery, 
whose  floor  was  strewed  with  human  bones ;  and  if 
he  had  an  opportunity,  he  should  like  to  preach  a 
sermon  there.  On  coming  out,  the  distiller  said  : 
"  So,  old  fellow,  you  would  like  to  preach  in  my  tem- 
ple, would  you?  when  will  you  come?"  "As  soon 
as  you  get  a  congregation  together,"  said  the  re- 
formed man.  "And  what  will  be  your  text?  "  said 
the  distiller.  "  Out  of  the  belly  of  hell  cried  I,  and 
thou  heardst  my  voice!"  The  distiller  was  con- 
founded, 

DISCARDED    LOVER. 

Eliza  Embert,  a  young  Parisian  lady,  resolutely 
discarded  a  gentleman  to  whom  she  was  to  have  been 
married  the  next  day,  because  he  ridiculed  religion. 
Having  given  him  a  gentle  reproof  for  some  impro- 
priety, he  replied,  "  that  a  man  of  the  world  would 
not  be  so  old-fashioned  as  to  regard  God  and  reli- 


308  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


gion."  Eliza  immediately  started  ;  but  soon  recov- 
ering herself,  said ;  "  From  this  moment,  as  I  dis- 
cover you  do  not  respect  religion,  I  cease  to  be 
yours." 

NOT   MY   WILL    BUT    THINE. 

It  is  of  great  importance  that  we  should  entreat 
the  Spirit  of  God  to  enable  us  to  pray  as  we  ought. 
The  late  Mr.  Kilpin,  of  Exeter,  England,  says  :  "  I 
knew  a  case,  in  which  a  minister  praying  over  a  child 

apparently  dying,  said :  '  If  it  be  thy  will,  spare .' 

The  poor  mother's  soul  yearning  for  her  beloved, 
exclaimed :  '  It  must  be  his  will  !  I  can  not  bear 
ifs.''  The  minister  stopped.  To  the  surprise  of 
many  the  child  recovered;  and  the  mother,  after 
almost  suffering  martyrdom  by  him  while  a  stripling, 
lived  to  see  him  hanged  before  he  was  two  and 
twenty  !  Oh  !  it  is  good  to  say,  '  Not  my  will,  but 
thine  be  done.'  " 

THE  WORLD  AND  BROTHERS 

It  proceeds  rather  from  revenge  than  from  malice, 
when  we  hear  a  man  affirm  that  all  the  world  are 
knaves.  For  before  a  man  draws  this  conclusion  the 
world  has  usually  anticpated  him,  and  concluded  this 
of  him  who  makes  the  observation.  Such  men  may 
be  compared  to  Brothers,  the  prophet,  who,  on  being 
asked  how  he  came  to  be  clapped  up  into  bedlam, 
replied,  "  I  and  the  world  happened  to  have  a  slight 
difference  of  opinion ;  the  word  said  I  was  mad,  and 
I  said  the  world  was  mad ;  I  was  outvoted  and  here 
I  am." 


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HAYITES  TO  THE  SCOFFERS. 

Of  Mr.  Haynes,  the  colored  preacher,  it  is  said, 
that  some  time  after  the  publication  of  his  sermon 
on  the  text,  "  Ye  shall  not  surely  die,"  two  reckless 
young  men  havino;  agreed  to  try  his  wit,  one  of  them 
said  :  "  Father  Haynes,  have  you  heard  the  good 
news?"  "No,"  said  Mr.  Haynes,  "what  is  it?" 
"It  is  great  news  indeed,"  said  the  other,  "and,  if 
true,  your  business  is  done."  "What  is  it?"  again 
inquired  Mr,  Haynes.  "  Why,"  said  the  first,  "  the 
devil  is  dead."  In  a  moment  the  old  gentleman 
rf-plied,  lifting  up  both  hands,  and  placing  them  on 
the  heads  of  the  young  men,  and  in  a  tone  of  solemn 
concern,  "oh,  poor  fatherless  children  what  will  be- 
come of  you?" 

WHY  DO  YOU  PLAXT  TREES. 

A  very  poor  and  aged  man,  busied  in  planting  and 
grafting  an  apple  tree,  was  rudely  interrupted  by  the 
interrogation :  "  Why  do  you  plant  trees,  who  can 
not  hope  to  eat  the  fruit  of  them?"  He  raised  him- 
self up,  and,  leaning  upon  his  spade,  replied :  "  Some 
one  planted  trees  before  I  was  born,  and  I  have  eaten 
the  fruit;  I  now  plant  for  others,  that  the  memorial 
of  my  gratitude  may  exist  when  I  am  dead  and  gone." 

wilberforce's  conversion. 

From  a  speech  delivered  by  J.  J.  Gurney,  Esq., 

at  the  meeting  of  the   British   and  Foreign  Bible 

Society,  in  1834,  we  learn  that  Mr.  Wilberforce  was 

in  the  24th  year  of  age  when  he  was  elected  a  member 


310  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 

of  parliament  for  Hull.     He  afterward  attended  the 
county  election,  and  such  was  the  charm  of  his  elo- 
quence on  that  occasion,  in  the  large  castle  area  at 
York,  that  the  people  all  cried  out :    "We  will  have 
that  little  man  for  our  member."     He  was  then  one 
of  the  gayest  of  the  gay:  not  an  openly  vicious  man, 
but  peculiar  for  his  wit,  and  his  distinction  in  the 
fashionable  circles.    His  wit  became  innocuous  under 
Christian  principles.     He  was  said  to  be  the  "joy 
and  crown  of  Doncaster  races."     He  went  to  visit  a 
relative  at  Nice,  and  was  accompanied  by  the  Rev. 
Isaac  Milner,  afterward  dean  of  Carlisle.     Mention 
was  made  of  a  certain  individual  who  moved  in  the 
same  rank,  an  ecclesiastic  gentleman,  a  man  devoted 
to  his  duty.     Mr.  W.  said,  regarding  him  :  "  that  he 
thought  he  carried  things  too  far ;"  to  which  Mr. 
Milner  said,  he  was  inclined  to  think  that  Mr.  W.  would 
form  a  different  estimate  on  the  subject,  were  he  to 
carefully  peruse  the  New  Testament.     Mr.  Wilber- 
force  replied  that  he  would  take  him  at  his  word, 
and  read  it  with  pleasure.     They  were  both  Greek 
scholars,  and  in  their  journey  they  perused  the  New 
Testament   together.     That  single  perusal  was  so 
blessed  to  Mr.  Wilberforce,  that  he  was  revolution- 
ized; he  became  a  new  man;  and  the  witty  songster, 
the  joy  and  crown  of  Doncaster  races,  proved  the 
Christian  Senator,  and  at  length  he  became  the  able 
and   successful   advocate   for   abolishincr   the   slave 
trade. 


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EFFECTS  OF  INTEMPERANCE  UPON  NATIONAL  INDUSTRY. 

The  results  of  national  industry  depend  on  the 
amount  of  well  directed  intellectual  and  physical 
power.  But  intemperance  paralyses  and  prevents 
both  these  springs  of  human  action. 

In  the  inventory  of  national  loss  by  intemperance, 
may  be  set  down  the  labor  prevented  by  indolence, 
by  debility,  by  sickness,  by  quarrels  and  litigations, 
by  gambling  and  idleness,  by  mistakes  and  misdi- 
rected efforts,  by  improvidence  and  watchfulness, 
and  by  the  shortened  date  of  human  life  and  activity. 
Little  wastes  in  great  establishments  constantly  oc- 
curring, may  defeat'^the  energies  of  a  mighty  capital. 
But  where  the  intellectual  and  muscular  energies  are 
raised  to  the  working  point  daily  by  ardent  spirits, 
until  the  agriculture,  and  commerce,  and  arts  of  a 
nation  move  on  by  the  power  of  artificial  stimulus, 
that  moral  power  can  not  be  maintained  which  will 
guarantee  fidelity,  and  that  physical  power  can  not 
be  preserved  and  well  directed,  which  will  insure 
national  prosperity.  The  nation  whose  immense  en- 
terprise is  pushed  forward  by  the  stimulus  of  ardent 
spirits,  can  not  ultimately  escape  debility  and  bank- 
ruptcy. 

When  we  behold  an  individual  cut  off  in  youth  or 
in  middle  age,  or  witness  the  waning  energies,  im- 
providence, and  unfaithfulness  of  a  neighbor,  it  is 
but  a  single  instance,  and  we  become  accustomed  to 
it ;  but  such  instances  are  multiplying  in  our  land 
in  every  direction,  and  are  to  be  found  in  every 


312  BOOK   OF  THOUGHT. 


department  of  labor,  and  the  amount  of  earnings 
prevented  or  squandered  is  incalculable ;  to  all  which 
must  be  added  the  accumulating  and  frightful  expense 
incurred  for  the  support  of  those  and  their  families 
•whom  intemperance  has  made  paupers.  In  every 
city  and  town  the  poor-tax,  created  chiefly  by  intem- 
perance, is  augmenting.  The  receptacles  for  the 
poor  are  becoming  too  strait  for  their  accommo- 
dation. We  must  pull  them  down  and  build  greater 
to  provide  accommodations  for  the  votaries  of  inebri- 
ation ;  for  the  frequency  of  going  upon  the  town 
has  taken  away  the  reluctance  of  pride,  and  destroyed 
the  motives  to  providence  which  the  fear  of  poverty 
and  suffering  once  supplied.  The  prospect  of  a  des- 
olate old  age,  or  of  a  suffering  family,  no  longer 
troubles  the  vicious  portion  of  our  community.  They 
drink  up  their  daily  earnings,  and  bless  God  for 
the  poor-house,  and  begin  to  look  at  it  as,  of  right, 
the  drunkard's  home,  and  contrive  to  arrive  thither 
as  early  as  idleness  and  excess  will  give  them  a  pass- 
port to  this  sinecure  of  vice.  Thus  is  the  insatiable 
destroyer  of  industry  marching  through  the  land, 
rearing  poor-houses,  and  augmenting  taxation : 
night  and  day,  with  sleepless  activity,  squandering 
property,  cutting  the  sinews  of  industry,  undermin- 
ing vigor,  engendering  disease,  paralysing  intellect, 
impairing  moral  principle,  cutting  short  the  date  of 
life,  and  rolling  up  a  national  debt,  invisible,  but 
real  and  terrific  as  the  debt  of  England  ;  continually 
transferring  larger  and  larger  bodies  of  men  from 


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the  class  of  contributors  to  the  national  income,  to 
the  class  of  worthless  consumers. 

Add  to  the  loss  sustained  by  the  substraction  of 
labor  and  the  shortened  date  of  life,  the  expense  of 
sustaining  the  poor  created  by  intemperance,  and 
the  nation  is  now  taxed  annually  more  than  the  ex- 
pense which  would  be  requisite  for  the  maintainance 
of  government,  and  support  of  all  our  schools  and 
colleges,  and  all  the  religious  instruction  of  the 
nation.  Already  a  portion  of  the  entire  capital  of 
the  nation  is  mortgaged  for  the  support  of  drunkards. 
There  seems  to  be  no  other  fast  property  in  the  land, 
but  this  inheritance  of  the  intemperate :  all  other 
riches  may  make  to  themselves  wings  and  fly  away. 
But  until  the  nation  is  bankrupt,  according  to  the  laws 
of  the  state,  the  drunkard  and  his  family  must  have 
a  home.  Should  the  pauperism  of  crime  augment  in 
this  country  as  it  has  for  a  few  years  past,  there  is 
nothing  to  stop  the  fearful  results  which  have  come 
upon  England,  where  property  is  abandoned  in  some 
parishes  because  the  poor-tax  exceeds  the  annual  in- 
come. You  who  are  husbandmen  are  accustomed  to 
feel  as  if  your  houses  and  lands  were  wholly  your 
own;  but  if  you  will  ascertain  the  per  centage  of  an- 
nual taxation  levied  on  your  property  for  the  support 
of  the  intemperate,  you  will  perceive  how  much  of  your 
capital  is  held  by  drunkards,  by  a  tenure  as  sure  as 
if  held  under  mortgages  or  deeds  of  warranty.  Your 
widows  and  children  do  not  take  by  descent  more 
certainly,  than  the  most  profligate  and  worthless 
part  of  the  community.      Every  intemperate  and 


314  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


idle  man  whom  you  behold  tottering  about  the  streets 
and  steeping  himself  at  the  stores,  regards  your 
houses  and  lands  as  pledged  to  take  care  of  him, 
annually  puts  his  hands  deep  into  your  pockets,  and 
eats  his  bread  in  the  sweat  of  your  brows,  instead 
of  his  own :  and  with  marvelous  good  nature  you 
bear  it.  If  a  robber  should  break  loose  on  the  high- 
way to  levy  taxation,  an  armed  force  would  be  raised 
to  hunt  him  from  society.  But  the  tippler  may  do 
it  fearlessly  in  open  day,  and  not  a  voice  is  raised, 
not  a  finger  is  lifted. — BeeeJier. 


COMPOSITIONS. 


EXAMPLES   ILLUSTRATING   THE    USE   OP   THE   EXPRES- 
SIONS  AS    SUBJECTS   OF   COMPOSITIONS. 

Tell  me  where  the  Protestant  religion  and  the  Bible  are,  and 
•where  they  are  not,  and  I  ■will  'write  a  moral  geography  of  the 
world. —  W.  Adams. 

"  From  the  proper  answers  to  the  above  two  queries, 
in  reference  to  any  people,  it  may  be  shown,  in  all 
particulars,  what  is  their  physical  condition."  A 
mere  glance  of  the  eye  will  inform  us  where  the 
Bible  is,  and  where  it  is  not.  Turn  your  eye  toward 
Ital}'^,  for  instance — decay,  degradation,  suffering, 
meet  your  gaze  on  all  sides.  Commerce  droops, 
agriculture  sickens,  the  useful  arts  languish.  '  There 
is  a  heaviness  in  the  very  air ;  the  people  are  afraid 
to  speak  aloud ;  they  walk  mopingly ;  an  armed  sol- 
diery is  round  about  their  dwelling  places.  We  feel 
cramped  by  some  invisible  power.  The  armed  police 
take  from  the  Christian  stranger  his  Bible,  before 
he  is  permitted  to  enter  the  territory.  Ask  for  tlie 
Bible  in  the  book-stores;  it  is  not  to  be  had,  except 
in  a  form  so  large  and  extensive  as  to  be  entirely 
beyond  the  reach  of  the  common  people.  The 
preacher  takes  not  his  text  from  the  Bible.     Enter 

the  Vatican,  and  inquire  for  God's  holy  book,  and 
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316  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


you  will  be  pointed  to  some  case  in  which  it  reposes 
among  prohibited  books,  side  by  side  with  the  works 
of  Diderot,  Rosseau,  and  Voltaire. 

But  cross  the  Alps  into  Switzerland,  and  pass 
down  the  Rhine  into  Holland,  across  the  Channel  to 
England  and  Scotland,  and  what  an  amazing  con- 
trast !  Men  hold  up  their  heads  ;  walk  with  a  firm 
and  quick  tread ;  look  with  an  air  of  independence ; 
there  are  industry,  neatness,  instruction  for  children. 
Why  this  striking  difference  ?  The  sky  is  no  brighter, 
the  scenes  of  nature  are  no  fairer — but  they  have 
the  Bible  ;  and  happy  is  the  people  who  have  it,  for 
it  is  '■'■righteousness  that  exalteth  a  iiation." 


The  lessons  -which  are  gathered  at  the  mother's  knee,  are 
likely  to  exert  a  controlling  influence  upon  the  child's  after 
destiny. — Napoleon. 

As  Mrs.  Sigourney  forcibly  and  beautifully  re- 
marks, "  Of  what  unspeakable  importance  is  her 
education,  who  gives  lessons  before  any  other  in- 
structor ;  who  pre-occupies  the  unwritten  page  of 
being ;  who  produces  impressions  which  only  death 
can  obliterate ;  and  mingles  with  the  cradle-dream, 
what  shall  be  read  in  eternity."  She  might,  with 
propriety,  have  said,  "  impressions  which  death  can 
not  obliterate.''  The  first  impressions  on  the  blank 
leaf  of  the  mind  are  never  erased.  Scratch  the 
green  bark  of  the  little  twig,  or  twist  it,  and  a 
scared  or  crooked  tree  will  tell  of  the  act  for  cen- 
turies to  come.     Just  so  with  the  early  teachings  of 


BOOK  OF   THOUGHT.  317 


childhood,  which  make  impressions  on  the  mind  and 
heart  that  time  can  not  efface. 

The  future  destiny  of  the  child  is  commonly  the 
work  of  the  mother ;  and  the  virtues  of  the  mother 
are  commonly  visited  on  her  offspring,  as  well  as  the 
"  sins  of  the  father."  True  it  is  that  a  mother's 
influence,  in  the  early  years  of  infancy  and  childhood, 
usually  makes  men  what  they  are  in  after  life.  It 
is  usually  said  that  "  all  great  men  have  had  great 
mothers."  0  the  responsibility  of  the  mother's 
office  !  0  the  responsibility  of  society  in  properly 
educating  mothers  for  their  high  and  holy  office ! 

"0  woman,  lovely  woman,  Nature  made  thee 

To  temper  man ;   we  had  been  brutes  without  thee." 

Women  govern  men,  therefore,  the  more  they  are 
enlightened,  so  much  more  will  men  be.  Sheridan 
says :  "  On  the  cultivation  of  the  minds  of  women 
depends  the  wisdom  of  man."  So  testifies  universal 
experience  and  observation. 


It  is  the  fixed  law  of  the  universe,  that  little  things  are  but 
parts  of  the  great. —  T.  Edwards. 

"  The  grass  does  not  spring  up  full  grown,  as  it 
were,  by  eruptions :  it  rises  by  an  increase  so  small 
and  noiseless  and  gentle,  as  not  to  disturb  an 
angel's  ear, — perhaps  to  be  invisible  to  an  angel's 
eye." 

The  rain  does  not  fall  in  great  sheets  or  masses, 
but  in  drops,  or  even  in  the  "  breath-like  moisture 
of  the  fine  mist." 


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The  planets  of  the  heavens  do  not  leap  from  end 
to  end  of  their  orbits,  but  they  move  inch  by  inch, 
and  line  by  line,  in  making  the  great  circle  of  the 
heavens. 

Men  do  not  become  evil  all  at  once ;  but  mere 
suggestion  brings  on  indulgence ;  indulgence,  de- 
light; delight,  consent;  consent,  endeaver ;  endeavor, 
practice  ;  practice,  custom  ;  custom,  excuse ;  excuse, 
defense;  defense,  obstinacy;  obstinacy,  boasting; 
boasting,  a  seared  conscience  and  a  reprobate  mind. 

Intellect,  feeling,  habit,  character,  all  become 
■what  they  are  by  the  influence  of  little  things. 

So  in  morals  and  religion,  it  is  by  little  things — 
by  little  influences  acting  constantly  upon  us,  or 
seemingly  little  decisions  repeatedly  made  by  us, 
that  we  are  all  going,  not  by  leaps,  yet  surely  by 
inches  and  lines,  either  to  life  or  death  eternal. 

The  influence  of  little  things  are  as  real,  and  as 
constantly  about  us,  as  the  air  we  breathe,  or  the 
light  by  which  we  see  objects  of  vision.  "  These 
are  the  small — the  often  invisible — the  almost  un- 
thought-of  strands,  which  are  inweaving  and  twining 
by  myriads,  to  bind  us  to  character — to  good  or  evil 
here,  and  to  heaven  or  hell  hereafter."  There  are, 
in  reality,  no  little  things,  but  what  is  commonly  so 
called,  being  but  parts  of  the  great,  are,  therefore, 
always  highly  considerable.  By  disregard  of  little 
tilings,  so  called,  tvefall  short  of  excellence. 


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Habit,  if  not  resolutely  resisted,  soon  becomes  necessity. 

Augustine. 

All  observation  attests  that  whatever  we  do  often, 
however  difficult  at  first,  becomes  easier  and  easier 
by  continued  practice.  Toward  actions  of  either 
body  or  mind,  good  or  bad,  we  acquire  by  repetition, 
at  first  an  inclination,  and  finally  an  irresistable  pro- 
pensity ;  so  that  what  was  in  the  beginning  mere 
choice,  becomes  in  the  end  imperative  necessity. 
The  condition  to  which  we  bring  ourselves  by  fre- 
quent repetition  of  single  acts,  constitutes  that  great 
law  of  our  nature  which  we  term  Habit. 

Fenelon  defines  habit  "  in  general  to  be  certain 
impressions  left  in  the  mind,  by  means  of  which  we 
find  a  greater  ease,  readiness,  and  an  increased  in- 
clination to  do  any  thing,  formerly  done,  by  having 
the  idea  ready  at  hand  to  direct  us  how  it  was  done 
before.  Thus,  for  example,  we  form  a  habit  of  so- 
briety by  having  always  before  us  the  evils  of  excess ; 
the  reflections  whereof,  being  often  repeated,  render 
the  exercise  of  that  virtue  continually  more  and 
more  easy." 

Dr.  Locke  defines  habit  to  be  "  trains  of  motions 
in  the  animal  spirits,  which  once  set  a  going,  con- 
tinue in  the  same  steps  they  have  been  used  to,  which 
by  often  treading,  are  worn  into  a  smooth  path,  and  the 
motion  in  it  becomes  easy,  and,  as  it  were,  natural." 

Dr.  Reed  views  habit  as  a  "part  of  our  constitu- 
tion, so  that  what  we  have  been  accustomed  to  do, 
we  acquire  not  only  a  facility,  but  a  proneness  to 
do  on  like  occasions,  so  that  it  requires  a  particular 


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effort  to  forbear  it ;  but  to  do  it,  requires  very  often 
no  will  at  all." 

Dr.  Paley  says  that  "man  is  a  bundle  of  habits." 
Habit,  in  its  nature  and  effects,  resembles  instinct; 
but  the  former  is  acquired,  the  latter  natural ;  both 
operate,  however,  without  the  exercise  of  either  will 
or  reflection. 

Habit  steals  upon  us  with  silent  tread,  and  unpcr- 
ceived,  thread  by  tread,  forms  the  strong  cable  that 
holds  us,  and  before  we  are  aware,  we  are  firmly 
bound  hand  and  foot,  the  passive  and  unresisting 
slaves  to  its  tyrannical  will.  Habit  with  an  iron 
grasp  seizes  the  unresisting  victim,  and  hurls  him 
headlong  from  the  height  of  prosperity,  into  an  abyss 
of  ruin.  It  is  man's  best  friend  or  his  Avorst  enemy; 
it  can  exalt  him  to  the  highest  pinnacle  of  virtue, 
honor,  and  happiness,  or  sink  him  to  the  lowest  depth 
of  vice,  shame,  and  misery. 

When  we  reflect  that  every  single  act,  good  or 
bad,  adds  an  additional  thread  to  the  cable  which 
binds  us  to  weal  or  woe,  not  only  for  life,  but  for  all 
eternity,  we  can  not  be  insensible  to  the  great  im- 
portance of  this  subject.  Solomon  refers  to  this 
great  law  of  our  nature,  when  he  says:  "  Train  up 
a  child  in  the  way  he  should  go,  and  when  he  is  old 
he  will  not  depart  from  it."  The  converse  of  this 
is  equally  true ;  for  train  up  a  child  in  the  way  he 
should  NOT  go,  and  when  he  is  old  he  will  not  depart 
from  that  way. 

That  habit  will  change  our  nature,  is  well  illus- 
trated by  the  story  of  the  aged  prisoner  of  the  Bas- 


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tile.     The  love  of  liberty  is  one  of  the  most  natural 

things  to  man,  but  from  long  years  of  confinement 

he  preferred  the  gloom  of  the  dungeon  to  the  blessed 

light  of  liberty. 

My  very  chains  and  I  grew  friends, 
So  much  a  long  communioa  tenda 
To  make  lis  what  we  are;  even  I 
Regain'd  my  freedom  with  a  sigh. 

Byron  s  Prisoner  of  Chillon. 

To  one  confirmed  in  the  habit  of  truth,  falsehood 
is  next  to  impossible  ;  to  the  habitually  industrious, 
idleness  is  much  harder  than  labor.  Form  a  con- 
firmed habit  of  frugality,  and  a  waste  of  property 
becomes  a  painful  efibrt ;  he  who  has  contracted 
habits  of  honesty,  will  recoil  at  a  breach  of  integ- 
rity. A  man  is  made  up  of  habits,  when  you  know 
them  you  know  him  ;  and  it  is  always  wiser  to  trust 
to  his  habits  than  to  his  promises. 

As  John  B.  Gough  says,  "Every  moderate  drinker 
could  abandon  tte  intoxicating  cup  if  he  would; 
every  inebriate  would  if  he  eouldJ'  The  poor  in- 
ebriate, however,  has  bound  himself  with  the  strong 
cable  of  habit.  "  He  curses  it  and  clings  to  it." 
"  It  has  robbed  him  of  his  will,  and  triumphantly 
points  to  the  precipice  toward  which  it  is  hurrying 
him."  According  to  the  old  maxim,  "practice 
makes  perfect."  Be  it  remembered,  it  can  equally 
perfect  a  human  being  in  either  good  or  evil.  We 
should,  therefore,  attentively  consider  the  tendency 
of  every  act  of  our  life,  "practicing  those  which 
lead  to  the  formation  of  good  habits,  on  the  one 
hand,  while  on  the  other,  we  avoid  those  which  are 
evil  in  their  consequences." 


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"The  Bible  is  a  ■window  in  this  dark  prison  of  hope." 
"  The  Bible  is  the  light  of  Man's  understanding, 
the  joy  of  his  heart,  the  fullness  of  his  hope,  the 
purifier  of  his  affections,  the  mirror  of  his  thoughts, 
the  consoler  of  his  deepest  sorrows,  the  unerring 
guide  of  his  soul  through  this  gloomy  labyrinth  of 
time,  the  telescope  sent  from  heaven  to  reveal  to 
man's  eye  the  amazing  glories  of  the  far  distant 
world." 

"  No  other  book,  of  all  the  world,  over  commanded 
so  vast  a  profusion  of  readers,  or  has  been  published 
in  so  many  languages.  Such  is  the  universality  of 
its  spirit,  that  no  book  loses  less  by  translation; 
none  has  been  so  frequently  copied  in  manuscript, 
and  none  so  many  times  printed.  King  and  noble, 
peasant  and  pauper,  master  and  slave  are  delighted 
students  of  its  heavenly  treasures.  The  wisest  phi- 
losophers have  humbly  gleaned  from  it,  and  legis- 
lators have  been  thankfully  indebted  to  it.  Its 
stories  charm  childhood,  its  hopes  inspirit  the  aged, 
its  promises  soothe  the  bed  of  death.  It  scatters 
that  darkness  which  envelops  our  souls.  "  By  its 
light  thousands  have  been  led  to  reflection,  to  repen- 
tance, to  heavenly  wisdom,  to  Christ,  to  God,  to  im- 
mortal bliss.  The  maiden  is  wedded  under  its  sanc- 
tion, and  the  grave  is  closed  under  its  comforting 
assurances.  Its  lessons  are  the  essence  of  religion, 
the  seminal  truths  of  theology,  the  first  principles 
of  morals,  and  the  leading  axioms  of  political  econ- 
omy. Martyrs  have  often  bled  and  been  burnt  at 
the  stake  for  attachment  to  it.     It  is  the  theme  of 


BOOK  OF  THOUGHT.  3-3 

universal  appeal.  In  the  entire  range  of  literature 
no  book  is  so  frequently  quoted  or  referred  to.  The 
majority  of  all  the  books  ever  published,  have  been 
in  connection  with  it.  The  fathers  commented  upon 
it,  and  the  subtle  divines  of  the  middle  ages  refined 
upon  its  doctrines.  It  sustained  Origen's  scholarship, 
and  Chrysostom's  rhetoric ;  it  whetted  the  penetra- 
tion of  Abelard,  and  exercised  the  keen  ingenuity 
of  Aquinas.  It  gave  life  to  the  revival  of  letters, 
and  Dante  and  Petrarch  reveled  in  its  imagery.  It 
augmented  the  erudition  of  Erasmus,  and  roused  and 
blessed  the  wonderful  intrepidity  of  Luther.  Its 
temples  are  the  finest  specimens  of  architecture,  and 
the  brightest  triumphs  of  music  are  associated  with 
its  poetry.  The  text  of  no  ancient  author  has  sum- 
moned into  operation  such  an  astonishing  amount 
of  labor  and  learning,  and  it  has  furnished  subjects 
and  occasions  for  the  most  masterly  examples  of  criti- 
cism and  comment,  grammatical  investigation,  and 
logical  analysis.  It  has  inspired  the  English  muse 
with  her  loftiest  strains.  Its  cheerful  beams  shone 
on  Milton  and  gladdened  his  heart  in  his  darkness, 
and  mightily  cheered  the  song  of  Cowper  in  his  sad- 
ness. It  was  the  star  which  led  Columbus  to  the 
discovery  of  a  new  world.  It  furnished  the  panoply 
of  Puritan  valor  which  shivered  tyranny  in  by-gone 
days.  It  is  the  great  Magna  Charta  of  the  world's 
regeneration  and  liberties.  Howard,  Tranche,  Noif, 
Sch warts,  the  departed  and  lamented  Chalmers,  and 
the  much  beloved  Shaftsbury,  were  cast  in  the  mould 
of  the   Bible.      The   mighty  accumulation   of  the 


324  BOOK  OF  THOUGHT. 


records  of  false  religion,  from  the  Koran  to  the 
book  of  Mormon,  have  owned  its  superiority,  and 
surreptitiously  purloined  its  precious  jewels. 

"  Among  the  Christian  classics,  it  loaded  the  trea- 
sures of  Owen,  charged  the  great  fullness  of  Hooker, 
barbed  the  point  of  Baxter,  gave  colors  to  the  palette, 
and  sweep  to  the  pencil  of  Bunyan,  enriched  the 
fragrant  fancy  of  Taylor,  sustained  the  towering 
loftiness  of  Howe,  and  strung  the  deep  sounding 
plummet  of  Edwards.  In  short,  this  Bible  collection 
of  artless  lifes  and  letters  has  changed  the  face  of 
this  wide  world,  and  ennobled  myriads  of  its  popula- 
tion. While  multiplied  millions  bid  it  welcome,  the 
mere  idea  of  its  circulation,  causes  the  Pope  to  trem- 
ble on  his  throne,  and  brings  from  his  quivering  lips, 
fearful  curses." 

Is  the  Bible,  which  has  wrought  such  wonders, 
the  word  of  God?  The  argument.  Bad  men  or 
devils  ivould  not  have  written  it,  for  it  condemns 
them  with  their  works,  and  was  so  extremely  un- 
popular that  they  could  not  have  expected  profit 
from  it.  Good  men  or  angels  could  not  have  written 
it,  for  in  saying  it  was  from  God,  when  it  was  but 
their  own  invention,  they  would  have  been  guilty 
of  falsehood,  and  thus  could  not  have  been  good  men. 
"  The  only  being  who  could  have  written  it,  then,  is 
God,  its  real  author." 


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infinitely  more  instructive  and  useful  than  the  thousand 
and  one  trashy  pubhcations  with  which  the  country  ia 
deluged,  and  which  are  so  apt  to  vitiate  the  taste,  and  niin, 
the  minds  of  young  readers.  One  word  more  in  behalf  of 
this  new  edition  of  Rollin  :  It  may  not  be  generally  known 
that  in  previous  English  editions  a  large  and  interesting 
portion  of  the  work  has  been  suppressed.  The  deficien- 
cies are  here  supplied  and  restored  from  the  French  edi- 
tions, giving  the  copy  of  Messrs.  Applegate  &  Co.  a  supe- 
riority over  previous  English  editions." —  Western  Recorder. 


"A  superb  edition  of  this  indispensable  text  and  refe- 
rence book  is  published  by  Messrs.  Applegate  <fe  Co. 
The  work  in  this  form  has  been  for  some  years  before  the 
public,  and  is  the  best  and  most  complete  edition  pub- 
lished. The  work  is  comprist-d  in  two  volumes  of  about 
600  pages  each,  containing  the  prefaces  of  Rollin  and  the 
"  History  of  the  Arts  at  I  Sciences  of  the  Ancients,  which 
have  been  omitted  in  mcst  American  editions." — Spring' 
field  Republic. 

"  The  work  is  too  well  known,  and  has  too  long  been  a 
favorite,  to  require  any  commendation  from  \is.  Though 
in  some  matters  more  recent  investigations  have  led  to 
conclusions  different  from  those  of  the  Author,  yet  his 
general  accuracy  is  unquestionable." — West.  Chris.  Adv, 


APPLEGATE  &  CO.'S  PUBLICATIONS. 

MOSHEIM'S  CHURCH  HISTORY. 

Ancient  and  Modern,  from  tlie  birth  of  Christ  to  the 
Eighteenth  Century,  in  which  the  Kise,  Progress,  and  Varia- 
tions of  Church  Power  are  considered  in  their  connection 
witli  the  state  of  Learning  and  Philosophy ;  and  the  Politi- 
cal History  of  Europe  during  that  period,  continued  up  to 
the  present  time,  by  Charles  Coote,  LL.  D.  806  pages, 
1  vol.,  quarto,  spring  back,  marble  edge. 


From  the  Masonic  Review. 

This  great  standard  history  of  the  Church  from  the  birth  of 
Christ,  has  just  been  issued  iu  a  new  dress  by  tlie  extensive  pub- 
lisliiiig  house  of  Applegate  <fe  Co.  Notliing  need  be  said  by  us 
in  rehition  to  the  merits  or  reliability  of  Mosheim's  History  :  it 
has  long  borne  the  approving  seal  of  the  Protestant  world.  It 
has  become  a  standard  work,  and  no  public  or  private  library  is 
complete  without  it ;  nor  can  an  individual  be  well  posted  in  the 
history  of  the  Christian  Church  for  eighteen  hundred  years, 
without  having  carefully  studied  Mosheim.  We  wish,  however, 
particularly  to  recommend  the  present  edition.  The  pages  are 
in  large  double  columns  :  the  type  is  large  and  very  distinct,  and 
the  printing  is  admirable,  on  fine  while  paper.  It  is  really  a 
pleasure  to  read  such  print,  and  we  recommend  our  friends  to 
purchase  this  edition  of  this  indispensable  work. 


From  the  Telescope,  Dayton,  O. 

This  work  has  been  placed  upon  our  table  by  the  gentlemanly 
and  enterprising  publishers,  and  we  are  glad  of  an  opportunity 
to  introduce  so  beautiful  an  edition  of  this  standard  Church  his- 
toiy  to  our  readers.  The  work  is  printed  on  beautiful  white 
paper,  clear  large  type,  and  is  bound  in  one  handsome  volume. 
No  man  ever  sat  down  to  read  Mosheim  in  so  pleasing  a  dress. 
What  a  treat  is  such  an  edition  to  one  who  has  been  studying 
this  elegant  work  in  small  close  print  of  other  editions. 


From  Professor  Wrightson. 

Whatever  book  has  a  tendency  to  add  to  our  knowledge  of 
God,  or  the  character  or  conduct  of  liis  true  worshipers,  or  that 
points  out  the  errors  and  mistakes  of  former  generations,  must 
lun  e  an  elevating,  expanding,  and  purifying  influence  on  the 
hunum  mind.  Sui-h  awork  is  Mosheim's  l^cclesiastical  History. 
Like  "  Rollin's  History  of  the  Ancients,"  it  is  the  standard,  and 
is  too  well  known  to  need  a  word  of  comment. 


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LITERATURE. 

Containing  Tales,  Sketches,  Anecdotes,  and  Gems  of  Thought, 
Literary,  Moral,  Pleasing  and  Instructive.  Illustrated  with 
eteel  plates.     1  vol.  octavo.     Embossed. 

To  furnish  a  volume  of  miscellaneous  literature  both  pleasing 
and  instructive,  has  been  the  object  of  the  editor  in  compiling 
this  work,  as  well  to  supply,  to  some  extent,  at  least,  the  place 
that  is  now  occupied  by  publications  which  few  will  deny  are  of 
a  Questionable  moral  tendency. 

It  has  been  the  intention  to  make  tliis  volume  a  suitable  travel- 
ing and  fireside  companion,  profitahdy  engaging  the  leisure  mo- 
ments of  the  former,  and  adding  an  additional  charm  to  the 
cheerful  glow  of  the  latter  ;  to  blend  amusement  with  instruc- 
tion, pleasure  with  profit,  and  to  present  an  extensive  garden  of 
vigorous  and  useful  plants,  and  beautiful  and  fragrant  flowers, 
among  which,  perchance,  there  may  be  a  few  of  inferior  worth, 
though  none  of  utter  inutility.  While  it  is  not  exclusively  a  re- 
ligious work,  yet  it  contains  no  article  that  may  not  be  read  by 
the  most  devoted  Christian. 


From  the  Cincinnati  Daily  Times. 

This  is  certainly  a  book  of  rare  merit,  and  well  calculated  for 
a  rapid  and  general  circulation.  Its  contents  present  an  exten 
sive  variety  of  subjects,  and  these  not  only  carefully  but  judi- 
ciously selected,  and  arranged  in  appropriate  departments.  Its 
contents  have  been  highly  spoken  of  by  men  of  ditstinguished 
literary  acumen,  both  editors  and  ministers  of  variouu  Christian 
denominations.     We  cheerfully  recommend  it. 


Gatheeed  Treasures  from  the  Mines  ob-  LrrERATUEE. — "One 
of  the  most  interesting  everyday  books  ever  published.  Like  tlie 
Spectator,  it  may  be  perused  again  and  again,  and  yet  afford 
something  to  interest  and  amuse  the  reader.  Its  varied  and  choice 
Belections  of  whatever  is  beautiful  or  witty,  startling  or  amus- 
ing, can  not  fail  to  afford  rich  enjoyment  to  minds  of  every  char- 
acter, and  a  pleasant  relaxation  from  more  severe  and  vigorous 
reading." 

Gathered  Teeasuees. — "  A  choice  collection  of  short  and  in- 
teresting articles,  comprising  selections  from  the  ablest  authors. 
Unlike  voluminous  works,  its  varied  selections  aflord  amusement 
for  a  leisure  moment,  or  entertainment  for  a  wJut.er  evening.  It 
is  alike  a  companion  for  the  railroad  car,  the  library  and  parlor, 
and   lever  fails  to  interest  its  reader." 


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aon.     Plain  and  embossed  gilt. 

The  numerous  calls  for  a  complete  and  cheap  edition  of 
this  valuable  work,  have  induced  us  to  netvly  stereotype  it, 
in  this  form,  corresponding  in  style  and  price  with  our 
other  books.  Its  thorough  revisions  have  been  committed 
to  competent  hands,  and  will  be  found  complete. 

From  the  Central  Christian  Herald. 

"  One  hundred  and  forty  years  ago,  when  there  were 
no  daily  newspapers  nor  periodicals,  nor  cheap  fictions  for 
the  people,  the  Spectator  had  a  daily  circulation  in  Eng- 
land. It  was  witty,  pithy,  tasteful,  and  at  times  vigorous, 
and  lashed  the  vices  and  follies  of  the  age,  and  inculcated 
many  useful  lessons  which  would  have  been  disregarded 
from  more  serious  sources.  It  was  widely  popular.  It 
contains  some  very  excellent  writing,  not  in  the  spasmodic, 
moon-struck  style  of  the  fine  writing  of  the  present  day, 
out  in  a  free,  graceful  and  flowing  manner.  It  used  to  be 
considered  essential  to  a  good  style  and  a  knowledge  of 
Btlles-Lettres  to  have  studied  the  Spectator,  and  we  are 
certain  our  age  is  not  wise  in  the  selection  of  some  of 
the  substitutes  which  are  used  in  its  stead.  It  should  yet 
be  a  parlor  volume,  which  should  be  read  with  great  profit. 

"  But  we  do  not  design  to  criticise  the  book,  but  have 
prefixed  these  few  facts  for  the  information  of  our  readei"s 
to  a  notice  of  a  new  edition  of  the  work  by  Messrs.  Apple- 
gate  &  Co.  It  is  entirely  of  Cincinnad  manufacture,  and 
is  in  a  style  very  creditable  to  the  enterprising  hous* 
which  has  brought  it  out." 


From  the  Clncmiviti  Commercial. 
"  Applegatk  &  Co.,  43  Main  street,  have  just  published, 
in  a  handsome  octavo  volume  of  750  pages,  one  of  th« 
Aery  best  classics  in  our  language.  It  would  be  super- 
fluous at  this  day  to  write  a  line  in  commendation  of  tliij 
work.  The  writings  of  Addison  are  imperishable,  and 
will  continue  to  charm  youth  and  age  while  language  lasts." 


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This  edition  has  been  carefully  revised  and  corrected, 
and  is  printed  upon  entirely  new  plates,  stereotyped  by 
ourselves,  to  correspond  with  our  library  edition  of  Dick's 
Works,  &c. 

From  the  Nashville  and  Louisville  Christian  Advocate. 

"  Plutarch's  Lives. — This  great  work,  to  which  has 
long  since  been  aT.-arded  the  first  honors  of  literatute,  is 
now  published  complete  in  one  volume  by  Messrs.  Apple- 
gate  &  Co.,  of  Cincii.uati,  and  offered  at  so  low  a  price  as 
to  place  it  within  the  reach  of  all.  This  is  a  desideratum, 
especially  in  this  age  of  'many  books.'  Next  in  impor- 
tance to  a  thorough  knowledge  of  history,  and  in  many 
respects  fully  equal  to  it,  is  the  study  of  well  authenti- 
cated biography.  For  this  valuable  purpose,  we  know  of 
no  work  extant  superior  to  the  fifty  lives  of  Plutarch.  It 
Is  a  rare  magazine  of  literary  and  biographical  knowledge. 
The  eminent  men  whose  lives  compose  this  work,  consti- 
tute almost  the  entire  of  that  galaxy  of  greatness  and 
brightness,  which  stretches  across  the  horizon  of  the  dis- 
tant past,  and  casts  upon  the  present  time  a  mild  and 
steady  luster.  Many  of  them  are  among  the  most  illus- 
trious of  the  earth." 


From  the  Ladies'  Repository. 
"  It  is  a  better  piece  of  property  for  a  young  man  to 
own,  than  an  eighty  acre  lot  in  the  Mississippi  Valley,  or 
many  hundred  dollars  in  current  money.  We  would 
rather  leave  it  as  a  legacy  to  a  son,  had  we  to  make  the 
choice,  than  any  moderate  amount  of  property,  if  we  were 
ceriain  he  would  read  it;  and,  we  are  bound  to  add,  that, 
were  we  now  going  to  purchase  a  copy,  this  edition  would 
have  the  preference  over  every  other  of  which  we  have 
any  knowledge." 


APPLEGATE  &  CO.'S  PUBLICATIONS. 


NOTES  ON  THE  TWENTY-FIVE  ARTICLES  OF  RE 

LIGION,  as  received  and  taught  by  Methodists  in  the 

United  States, 

In  which  the  doctrines  are  carefully  considered  and 
supported  by  the  testimony  of  the  Holy  Scriptures.  By 
Rev.  A.  A.  JiMESON,  M.  D.     12mo,  embossed  cloth. 

This  book  contains  a  clear  exposition  of  the  doctrines  of 
the  Articles,  and  of  the  errors  against  which  the  Articles 
were  directed,  written  in  a  popular  style,  and  divided  into 
sections,  for  the  purpose  of  presenting  each  doctrine  and 
vts  opposite  error  in  the  most  prominent  manner. 

From  Rev.  John  Miller. 
"  It  is  a  book  for  the  Methodist  and  for  the  age — a  re- 
ligious multnm  in  parvo — combining  sound  theolog)'  with 
practical  religion.     It  should  be  found  in  every  Methodist 
family." 


From  Rev.  "W.  R.  Babcock,  Pastor  of  tJte  Methodist  Cliurch  in  St 
Louis,  Mixsouri. 
"  From  our  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  gifted  and 
pious  Author  of  these  'Notes,'  we  anticipate  a  rich  intel- 
lectual feast,  and  an  able  defense  of  the  Biblical  origin  of 
the  doct7-ines  of  the  Articles  of  Religion,  as  contained  in 
the  Discipline  of  the  Methodist  Church." 


•'  The  laymen  of  the  Methodist  Church  have  long  need- 
ed this  work.  Although  we  regard  the  Twenty-J'ive  Ar- 
ticles as  self-evident  truths — the  concentrated  teachings  of 
the  Holy  Bible,  and  the  bulwark  of  the  Protestant  Faith 
— they  are  not  sufficiently  understood  and  comprehended 
by  those  professing  to  believe  tliem.  Dr.  Jimeson  has 
furnished  us,  in  a  condensed  form  and  popular  style,  with 
a  lucid  exposition  and  triumphant  defense  of  our  faith, 
sustained  and  supported  by  history  and  the  opinions  of 
the  Fathers,  and  adapted  to  the  present  wants  of  tha 
Church." 


APPLEGATE  &  CO.'S  PUBLICATIONS. 
PETERSON'S  FAMILIAR  SCIENCE; 

Or,  the  Scientific  Explanation  of  Common  Things. 

Edited  by  R.  E.  Peterson,  Member  of  the  Academy  ol 
Natural  Sciences,  Philadelphia. 

From  T.  S.  Aethuk,  Editor  of  the  Home  Gazette. 

"  'Famihar  Science,  or  the  Scientific  Explanation  of 
Common  Things,'  is  one  of  the  most  generally  useful 
books  that  has  lately  been  printed.  This  work,  or  a  poi'- 
tion  of  it,  came  first  from  the  pen  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Brewer, 
of  Trinity  Hall,  C^'aibridge  ;  but,  in  the  foim  it  first  ap- 
peared from  the  English  press,  it  was  not  only  unsuited  to 
the  American  pupil,  but  very  deficient  in  arrangement. 
These  defects,  the  editor  has  sought  to  remedy.  To  give 
not  only  to  the  parent  a  ready  means  of  answering  inqui- 
ries, but  to  provide  a  good  book  for  schools,  is  the  object 
of  this  volume.  About  two  thousand  questions,  on  all 
subjects  of  general  information,  are  answered  in  language 
so  plain  that  all  may  understand  it." 


From  Wji.  S.  Clavenger,  Principal  of  Grammar  School,  PIdla. 

*'The  pages  of  'Familiar  Science*  are  its  best  recom- 
mendation. The  common  phenomena  of  life  are  treated 
of  in  a  simple  and  intelligible  manner,  which  renders  it 
both  pleasing  and  instructive.  In  the  family  circle,  as  a 
text  book,  it  will  form  the  basis  of  an  hour's  interesting 
conversation,  and  in  the  hands  of  the  pupil,  it  will  be  a 
valuable  aid  in  the  acquisition  of  useful  knowledge." 


From  "Wm.  Robkbts,  Princijxd  of  Ringiookl  School,  Pldlcuklpltia. 

"Robert  E.  Peterson,  Esq. — Dear  Sir — I  have  been 
much  gratified  by  an  examination  of  your  book,  entitled 
'Familiar  Science.'  The  cause  of  every  day  phenomena, 
such  as  evaporation,  condensation,  the  formation  of  clouds, 
rain,  dew,  etc.,  are  so  familiarly  explained,  that  all  classes 
of  persons  may  readily  comprehend  them,  and  I  believe 
the  book  has  only  to  be  known  to  be  appreciated  by- 
teachers. " 


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TEMPERANCE  MUSICIAN. 

A  choice  selection  of  original  and  scl(;ctod  TVinpefance  Music, 
arranged  for  one,  two,  three,  or  four  voices,  with  an  extensive 
variety  of  Popular  Temperance  Soigs.     3'2mo. 

This  is  a  neat  Tolume,  well  printed,  and  well  bound,  containing  256  pajes. 
It  is  the  best  collection  of  temperance  songs  and  music  we  have  seen.  Were  a 
few  copies  secured  in  every  town  in  Ohio,  in  the  hands  of  the  warm-hearted 
friends  of  tlie  Maine  Law,  an  element  of  iv)wer  and  interest  would  l)e  added  to 
temperance  meetings,  and  a  stronger  impulse  given  to  the  onward  march  of  the 
sold  water  army. — Summit,  ((?.,)  Beacon. 


This  will  certainly  become  one  of  the  most  popular  temperance  song  book* 
which  has  been  published  in  the  country.  We  think  it  is,  so  far  as  we  have 
examined,  the  best  collection  of  songs  we  have  seen.  Some  of  them  ai-e  ex- 
ceedingly beautiful  and  affecting. — Temperance  Cliarl. 


This  is  a  popular  Temperance  Song  Book,  designed  for  the  people,  and  should 
be  tu  every  family.  We  cam  recommend  it  to  the  patrona.i;e  of  ali  our  tempe- 
rance friends,  as  the  best  temperance  .songster,  with  music  attached,  we  have 
seen.  The  music  in  this  work  is  set  acconiing  to  Harrison's  Xumei-nl  Sv»tum, 
for  two  reasons:  First,  because  it  is  so  simple  and  scientific  that  ai!  the  people 
can  easily  learn  it.  Second,  it  is  difficult  to  set  music  in  a  book  of  this  size 
amd  shape,  except  in  numerals. — CUvdaml  Commercial. 


UNIVERSAL  MUSICIAN. 

By  A.  D.  Fillmore.  Author  of  Christian  P.salmi.st,  &c.,  contain- 
ing all  Systems  of  Notation.     New  Edition,  enlarged. 

The  title,  "Universal  Musician,"  is  adopted  becau.se  the  work 
is  designed  for  everybody.  The  style  of  expression  i.s  in  coiuinoii 
plain  English,  so  tliat  it  may  be  adapted  to  the  capacities  of  all, 
instead  of  simply  pleasing  the  fancy  of  the  few. 

Most  of  the  music  is  written  in  Harrison's  Numeral  System  of 
Notation,  because  it  is  the  most  intelligible  of  all  the  ditferent 
systems  extant,  and  is  tht^refore  better  adapted  to  tjie  wants  of 
community.  Music  would  be  far  better  understood  and  appre- 
ciated by  the  people  generally,  if  it  were  all  written  in  this  way. 
For  it  is  more  easily  written,  occupies  less  space,  is  more  quickly 
learned,  more  clearly  understood,  is  less  liable  to  be  forgotten, 
and  will  answer  all  common  purposes  better  than  any  other. 
But  the  world  is  full  of  music,  written  in  various  systems,  and 
the  learner  should  acquire  a  knowledge  of  all  the  principal  varie- 
ties of  notation,  so  as  to  be  able  to  read  all  music.  To  afford  this 
knowledge  to  all,  is  the  object  of  the  present  effort. 

Poetry,  which  is  calculated  to  please  as  well  as  instruct,  haa 
been  carefully  selected  from  many  volutjies  already  published, 
and  from  original  compositions  furnished  expressly  for  this  work. 
Much  of  the  music  is  original,  which  is  willingly  submitted  to 
tlie  ordeal  of  public  opinion.  Some  of  it  certainly  possesses  some 
merit,  if  we  may  judge  from  the  avidity  with  which  it  is  pil 
fered  and  ofTered  to  the  public  by  some,  would-be,  authors 


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ITuirersalliad  ;  Or  Confessiong  of  Universalism.  A  Poem  in  twelve  Can- 
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plaiofd,  anil  i!<  oliief  arguments  consiilereU  anU  refuted. 

Salvation  by  (Christ.     By  Kev.  \Vm.  SasRLOcK. 

^olian  liyri»)t.  By  Ilev.  AVm.  B.  GaLiiAM,  Pastor  of  the  First  Cumberland 
I'resbyteriau  Church,  Columbia,  Tenn.     Fiijured  Notes,  250  pages. 

Aincrican  Church  Harp.  \  Choice  Colleclion  of  Hymns  and  Tune» 
adapteil  to  all  Cliri.«tian  Churches.  Siniring  School.s,  and  Private  Families. 
By  ilev.  \V.  IlHi.VEnvKT.     12aio..  h;ilf  morooo. 

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Aarox  Cox. 
Sacred  ITIeloaeon,  A  Collection  of  Revival  Hymns.     By  Kev.  R.  M.  Dalbt. 
A  Biographical  Siielch  of  C'oloiiel   Daniel  Boone,  the  First 

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liifeof  Tecuuiseh,  and  of  his  Brother  the  Prophet,  witha  Historical  Sketch 

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